Rachel was obviously making it up from her keyboard, not actually driving there: <IT'S A BRIGHT, BALMY SUNDAY afternoon and I'm driving through the western outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, the kind of place you never see on a postcard. No majestic mountains, no improbably green pastures > There are no doubt postcards in Henderson of local scenes.
The western outskirts of Auckland is exactly where there are majestic mountains and improbably green pastures. It's illegal for Westies to not have green out there.
The New Zealand welfare system and capital base is like El Dorado for Polynesians who have created almost nothing but huts in their own countries. They in NZ for the loot, not the high ground: <This is the Tuvalu Christian Church, the heart of a migrant community from what may be the first country to be rendered unlivable by global warming. >
Unfortunately, NZ is rapidly turning into a banana republic, without the climate for bananas to grow. So we have to make do with woolly sheep which can stay warm in glacial times. If we could get some global warming going, things would be better. When the bludgers have depleted the energies of the productive and capable, the welfare recipients and government spivs will be in trouble.
They'll move back to Tuvalu where at least it's warm and power stations are not needed for heating. Unfortunately for them, subsistence fishing and kumara growing will be inadequate for the numbers grown fat on the food from the previously productive.
Here's an idea - they could move to Fiji instead of NZ. It's not so far and Fiji could use the economic boost of more people. There's plenty of room on the hills too. Same with Rarotonga. Not to mention Papua New Guinea - mountains galore. If they move to Fiji and PNG they could also continue with Polynesian culture instead of dealing with that horrible Pakeha culture of laws and private property and taxes and welfare and freebies...
Here's an idea. Tuvalu could be a huge waste processing place. They could take shiploads of rubbish from Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo sort it out, keeping the good stuff for rexporting to industrial processing, and piling the unwanted stuff up with inorganics around the edge of the island and up into the air to make 500 metre high mountains. The organics could be used to make fertile soil. Glass could be used to make beaches [silica being the main component of the most beautiful beaches].
Of course that's not as attractive as moving into the welfare system of NZ and scoring a free house, free medical treatment, free passports, free education, free roads, free hospitals, free money.... jackpot!!!
Meanwhile, sea levels are not rising. Not that the Ellice Islanders need to worry about. If they want to move here, NZ should annex the islands and make them tourist territory of NZ.
The sea level rise they should worry about is the sudden one from bolide induced tsunami. Same as hundreds of thousands of NZers who think a sand spit is a good place to build a house but are going to get a very unpleasant lesson about life at sea level. Neither should they move uphill to Taupo, safely above sea level, because there they will get an even more unpleasant lesson about living inside the mouth of an active volcano.
Foolishness is obviously part of the human genome, which nature is winnowing to find the DNA which can predict danger and avoid it. There is plenty of fear build into the genome [not surprising after spending a billion years evolving to flee from imminent attack]. But there isn't much causal effect intelligence and understanding of the five forces of the apocalypse [gravity, electromagnetic, strong, weak and consciousness].
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