August 31, 2022
In a climate crisis future, Co-governance is a resilience, not a betrayal of democratic values
Martyn Bradbury: In a climate crisis future, Co-governance is a resilience, not a betrayal of democratic values
The speed, scale and destruction caused by global warming around the planet demands a response well beyond the colonization status quo.
This country’s wealth is built upon three pillars, confiscation of Māori land and never paying back any meaningful compensation, exploitation of migrant labour and 30 years of de-unionisation.
These three injustices combine to produce the vast wealth of NZ.
Compounding this is a climate crisis that is punishing the poorest on the planet while upending the agricultural calendar that so much of our economy is reliant upon.
In short, we face steep challenges that require new thinking.
This is why the hysteria over co-governance is so misplaced. In a rapidly changing environment, we need wiser voices and more of them at the decision making tables when it comes to protecting our water and our environment.
Co-governance is a resilience, not a betrayal of democratic values. More voices with experience of the local flax roots knowledge and sustainable values injected into decision making during such rapid change is an advantage, not an ethno nationalist state!
Our strength is in our partnership, it is in our recognition of the State’s obligations to protect all our rights and collective self agency while centering decision making for the many not the few.
This is the blueprint for our survival from the climate crisis, it is not the end of Western Civilization.
Western Civilization is doing a fine job of ending all on its own.
Martyn Bradbury
Editor – TheDailyBlog.nz
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