Okay, still enraged.

A while ago (i have no idea if we're talking a few years, or a couple of decades) one of my current lecturers discovered a new species of fish. It lives only in a small group of wet lands in a certain part of the country, and no where else. In the last two or three years, two of the main areas they live in have "gone up in flames" as he puts it. I don't know what that actually means, did they get set on fire?

Now, the local council want to run the sewage treatment system for the region right through the remaining habitat of this unique little fishy. Pisses me right off!

Why is it that money is more important than our biodiversity???


Okay, to the point...

I'm not a very scholarly person, I certainly don't spend as much of my time thinking godly thoughts as I probably ought to... but I have been a pondering...

God made man (and woman) to be lord over the earth and all the varying critters. Which, I would take to be, we were made to look after the earth and all the varying critters.

I mean, if you think about he servants who were given talents, and what each of them did with them.... there's the guy who looked after his masters money and grew the investment, and there's a guy who buried it the ground and did nothing with it, just gave it back when his master returned. We hear this parable and we think, "nah, I don't want to be that second (or actually third) guy!" We think we want to make sure to look after, and grow, the things that God had given us. Right?

Hasn't He given us a planet??? Hasn't He given us a variety of animals beyond what we have so far been able to discover?

So, God gives us a planet and a bunch of animals, which servant are we? We aren't even the guy who did nothing with what he was given. We are the guy who sets his masters house of fire, and lets his sheep get out.


So why is it, that more Christians aren't concerned with saving the environment; petitioning against the cutting down of rain forests for palm oil production, and protecting marine habitat, saving endangered species? Do we just think God doesn't care? Somehow I doubt he would have gone to the trouble of making the natural world so "unnecessarily beautiful" if all he wanted to look down on was concrete.

A Return to Commercial Whaling?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?

HOW DARE THEY! HOW DARE THEY! HOW DARE THEY! How DARE the NZ government even consider allowing a return to commercial whaling! How F**king DARE they!

We used to be the little country that could.
We stood up to our nuclear armed allies, even in times of war, and forbid them from bringing nuclear powered ships and subs into our waters.
We were the first to climb to the worlds highest peak.
We beat the Wright brothers into the air, regardless of what some history books say.
We were the first, the very first, to give women the right to vote.

We used to be this tiny little island nation at the bottom of the world who put older, bigger, richer countries to shame with our ingenuity our courage, our boldness and our determination to what was right, not what was merely easy or convenient.

What happened to us??? How could any black-blooded Kiwi EVER agree to this?

When did we as a people decided that if at first we didn't succeed, we would turn round and bend over instead?

On the news last night, they stated this would be a return to commercial whiling for Japan, Iceland and Norway. Are we really so stupid as to think that legalisation wouldn't have other countries demanding their share of the Whale meat pie?

I know Japan continues whaling under the guise of scientific research, despite global disapproval and protest, I know. But how does anyone trick themselves into believing that giving them, or any other country for that matter, our nod of approval will makes things better.

yes, if something is made legal, rules and regulations can be put in place. But honestly, if a country is prepared to go against international requests, to so blatantly break international law, and enter other countries territories to it, do you really think they'll be bothered by restrictions desired by the very same countries they currently ignore.

What happened???

Is this latest move by our government, the ultimate and irrefutable proof that the brain drain is complete? Or, have we become so caught up in the race to be more like our neighbors, that we have forgotten, or no longer care, who are?

How is it that Australia is displaying more environmental balls than us?

We should all be ashamed!