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immibis (npub1cp5…67a2)
> Conservative parties, as a general rule, are owned by big business
... as are all neoliberal parties. Changes of NZ government have mainly been changes of social policy since the 1980s, when economic policy was locked into the Washington Consensus.
Which is why although Labour talked a big game about climate change, they didn't do most of what's really needed, and they won't even talk about peak oil. Any action on such problems will only be extracted by determined public action.
> Conservative parties, as a general rule, are owned by big business
... as are all neoliberal parties. Changes of NZ government have mainly been changes of social policy since the 1980s, when economic policy was locked into the Washington Consensus.
Which is why although Labour talked a big game about climate change, they didn't do most of what's really needed, and they won't even talk about peak oil. Any action on such problems will only be extracted by determined public action.