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Christine Rose
Environment – Sounding off
It’s spring so the garden is full with a cacophony of bird song. Sparrows, blackbirds, starlings, doves, tui, kereru, rosellas, ducks and ducklings, turkeys and...
Environment – Optimists challenged
‘On the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree,’ wrote US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. Indeed, sometimes it feels like...
Environment – A matter of perspective
Regulation is essential for governing how we co-exist in balance with each other and nature – for public and environmental health. Since 1991 in New...
Environment – Walking on the wild side
By Christine Rose Images of orca dying and dead on New Zealand’s beautiful beaches, stir heartache in many of us. Orca are physically stunning, intelligent,...
Environment – Few fish left in the sea
Like many pre-election promises, the pledge to protect fish stocks of the Hauraki Gulf from commercial overfishing looked good on the surface but fails to...
Environment – Environmental injustice the norm
Western philosophers have debated justice at least since the time of Socrates. Theories of justice consider how evenly ‘goods’ are distributed. Where goods and ‘bads’,...
Environment – Captivity suits none
The importation to Auckland Zoo at ratepayers’ expense of new elephants to keep lonely solo elephant Burma company has generated discussion for many reasons. Should...
Environment – Shades of green
By Christine Rose Sometimes it seems that everyone has ‘gone green’. Mining companies, land ‘developers’, factory farmers, even Monsanto, all have sustainability policies and claim...
Environment – Rewilding and restoring
By Christine Rose The world’s rewilding projects bring brave ideals of ecological recovery to life. Rewilding is a notion which emerged as recently as the...
Environment – Eco-socialism offers hope
Karl Marx is most widely known for his critique of capitalism and proposal for an alternative economic system, but his theories also offer valuable environmental...
