North Canterbury News: August 19, 2021

OPINION
6 The North Canterbury News, August 19, 2021
Eventful Hurunui to
host free workshop
The board of Eventful Hurunui is
hosting afree workshop on Monday,
August 30, at The Better Half Leithfield
at 6pm, with Jon Holmes of Events Goals.
Jon will introduce participants to
practical information on how to make
certain your event is successful.
If you want to make your next event a
great success your registration is
welcome on www.eventfulhurunui.co.
nz/eventful­workshops.
Numbers are limited to Hurunui
residents and we look forward to your
attendance.
Events and activities across our
district provide the opportunity for
social cohesion, which is critical for our
wellbeing, the volunteer contribution to
hosting events is significant across our
district and many of these attributes
were celebrated at the annual Hurunui
District community service awards.
Guest speaker Trish Coleman spoke
about the valueofcontribution and
volunteering.
As humans we are‘socialanimals’, our
relationships with others contribute to
feeling good. It’s important to socially
connect with others where we can and
developing healthy relationships can
increase our feelings of happiness,
security, belonging and self­worth.
Scientific studies showthat helping
others boosts happiness, improves our
mood andreduces stressand is likely to
take our mindsoff our own concerns.
Ihave had the privilegeofattending
the annual St John’s volunteer dinner
and several Fire and Emergency NZ
awards ceremonies, these eventshave
celebrated many of our community
members whohave given 100’s of hours
collectively to the wellbeing of our
district.
Being called avolunteer is aprecious
title, one that is admired as it is through
volunteering the true value of serviceto
the community is demonstrated —we
are fortunate to live in acommunity that
values these involvements.
‘‘Together Hurunui’’is aforumthat
provides collaboration for social service
providers to come together on abimonthly
basis with the vision ‘‘thatall
people in the Hurunui are valued and
connected’’.
This network encourages
participation to ensure successful
outcomes for individuals and
communities, it also has been
instrumental in advocating and
supporting positive outcomes for health
and wellbeing in the district.
To all of you who create events both
commercial and not for profit –thank
you for making the Hurunui agreat
place to live, to visit and enjoy.
Spring is just around the corner and
that means ahost of events will be
happening for us to enjoy.
Climate change
and killing cows
By BRUCE FRAMPTON,OXFORD
Fellow New Zealander’s, it’s not
governments, conglomerates, virtue
signalling political leaders or people
writing endlessdoom and gloomarticles
that will savethis planet.
No, it is you and me and the hundredsof
millionsofpeople around the worldthat
could, if we wanted to, save the planetfrom
further degradation.
Latest researchbyRhodium Group
reports thatChina,India and the USA emit
around 45% of theworld’s greenhouse
gasses.
Chinaalone emits more greenhouse gas
than the entiredeveloped world
combined. Central to this is China,India
and the USA’s reliance on coalfired power
stations.
This energy is used to produce goods
whichhas fuelledrampant consumerism
polluting the world’s atmosphere and
filling our oceans with country sized
islands of plastic. Floating in the Pacific
Oceanisthe ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
covering1.6 millionsquare kilometres, an
area three timesthe size of France.
We, the peoplewho buy these goods,can
send amarket drivenmessage that would
forcethe demise of coalburningpower
stations used for manufacture.The effect
this wouldhave on the world’s climate is
no better illustrated than what thecovid
lockdowns achieved for the planet’s health
in such afleeting space of time last year.
Governments and interested
corporationsare notgoing to stoppeople
buying the latesttelevisions,smart phones,
computers, fashion clothing, countless
plastic goods and throwaway bling these
countries produce.
Free trades agreements, overwhelming
political pressureand business bottom
lines will stop this solution from ever being
seriously consideredand the reasonswhy
will be trumpetedlong and loud by the
corporateowned media. We the people are
the problemand we the peoplecan be the
solution.Make adecision, the welfare and
continuation of lifeasweknowit, or an
unstoppableplunge into an abyss of
endless adverse weather events.
Are we going to have afutureofGreta
Thunberg inspired youngpeople believing
that reducing New Zealand’scontribution
of greenhouse gasesof0.17 percent (yes
that’sright) less than 1/5thof1%will
somehow save the world?
We could killall the cowsinNew
Zealand, drive electric cars, do everything
we can to reduce our carbon footprint here
in New Zealand and this will save the
world from the worst of extremes of
climate change? Yeahright!
If the governmentsofthe worldare
serious about climatethen they should
deal withthe issuesthat would seriously
give us achancetochange things.Ifthe
world’s leaders compensated South
American countries fromdestroyingthe
Amazonrain forest, ‘the lungsofthe earth’,
stopped encouraging coal fired power
generation for manufacturing and guided
the world’s economies awayfrom
excessiveconsumerism then we would
have the sortofprogress thatwouldsave
the world.
I’m not advocating thatweshouldn’t do
everything we caninNew Zealand to
mitigate climatechange, we must, but if we
reallywant to makeastatement to save the
planetthen we must forgo all the
unnecessary bling of thisconsumer
orientated world and votewith our money
and not our mouths.
Lost and found
Dear Editor,
Nurses needtobepaid more –all
nurses, whoeverfunds them.
Nurses needworkingconditions that
are safe and supported –all nurses,
whoever employs them. DHB nurses are
currently fightingfor what seems like anobrainer–pay
and conditions that respect
and enhance the manaoftheircohort.But
what of nurses who aren’tdirectly
employedbythe DHB’s?
Wheredoes it leave them? Particularly
thoseworking in not­for­profitand
community­basedsettings? Those that
provide safetyand services for our older
people?
The current NZ Nurses Organisation
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claim covers30,000registered nurses–but
only those working forDHBs. Funding of
better pay and conditions for the other
20,000 nurses not directly employedbythe
DHBs are not included.
Minister Littlewas clearwhen
interviewed by Mani Dunlop on RNZ’s
Midday Report (6/8/21) that non­DHB
nurses willneed to wait twoyears.
This is too long. The reality is, atwo­year
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funding that is passedon. But thisincrease
won’tflow on. So our nurses will have to
choose to leaveus. And withoutour
nurses,wewill have to reduce the number
of older people we care for in our services.
We mayevenhave to close our services in
some communities.
We need everyone in our communities
to contact theirlocalMPs and let them and
Minister Little know that we want our
nurses paid what they are worth, with
conditions that match.All nurses,now.
Yours,
NikkiHurst, Executive Officer, New
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Thefollowing property has been
reported as lost to the police in
North Canterbury ­have you seenit?
ASamsungcellphone with red
back and in asalmon colourfolding
case, aset of keys/twoelectronic car
keys/3otherkeys and USB flash
drive, ablackiPhone 7, ablack
leather wallet,and ablackSamsung
Galaxy S10 Plus.
Thefollowingproperty is waiting
to be claimed:
Abox of linen,alanyardwith black
key/silverkey/purplekey/greenand
clearletter “G”/Laserkey chain/
silver flower ring (both at the
KaiapoiStation).
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Motunau 1:54pm 2.4 8:13pm 0.5 2:52pm 2.5 9:09pm 0.4 3:46pm 2.5 10:02pm 0.4 4:37pm 2.5 10:54pm 0.4 5:27pm 2.5 11:43pm 0.4 6:15pm 2.4 12:03pm 0.4 7:03pm 2.4 12:51pm 0.4
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*Not for navigational purposes. Wind and swell are based on apoint off Gore Bay. Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa. www.ofu.co.nz www.tidespy.com Graphic supplied by OceanFun Publishing Ltd.
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