Post ASsvRT47Y9KcbzsQu8 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
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(DIR) Post #ASsr13oGQaoww8c2gy by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-02-20T21:50:03Z
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Still waiting for the #NZ government to mention the need to move infrastructure, businesses and people (but let's face it, businesses will be put to the front) off the damn floodplains.
(DIR) Post #ASssF1kuxekAZhGsO8 by ByronCinNZ@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-02-20T22:03:44Z
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@vik With climate change do we really know where the flood plains are and the risk factors? Where else do you build that is safe? If we move everything from the flood plains does that mean we do have to address waterway and watershed issues that make the flooding worse?
(DIR) Post #ASst2v407IoaIYzI36 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-20T22:12:43Z
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@vik irrespective of govt action, the insurance industry will be making it increasingly untenable to build or develop in stupid places. Here's NZIC's thoughts on the matter (skip the ads in the first 5 mins)https://www.icnz.org.nz/about/events/icnz-2020-speaker-series/the-perfect-storm-our-climate-and-nzs-resilience-into-the-future/
(DIR) Post #ASsvRT47Y9KcbzsQu8 by jonathanharker@cloudisland.nz
2023-02-20T22:38:26Z
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@vik also, James Shaw is pretty fed up:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/new-zealand-minister-delivers-furious-speech-about-lost-decades-spent-bickering-over-climate-crisis
(DIR) Post #ASt49igtcDUVRqcr7A by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-02-21T00:16:46Z
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@vik And simultaneously, off the hills, because of slips.
(DIR) Post #ASt5PPV4pjDKW78vxY by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-02-21T00:31:11Z
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@yojimbo And river valleys are often there because of a fault line...
(DIR) Post #ASt5UORCDAiCfYhhJI by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-02-21T00:32:09Z
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@vik Perhaps it would be easier if we all hovered 2 metres off the ground at all time. Shame kiwi are flightless ...
(DIR) Post #ASt5ZQsyXMJli46HvU by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-02-21T00:32:51Z
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@yojimbo Airships! Oh wait, probably wouldn't do too well in a cyclone either
(DIR) Post #ASt5fPNF4SNMl56gTI by yojimbo@hackers.town
2023-02-21T00:34:08Z
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@vik Curses, I didn't think of that ... airships would have been cool ... very Diamond Age of course ...
(DIR) Post #ASt5mE6XMvLvplXof2 by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-02-21T00:35:27Z
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@yojimbo I'm a big fan, but wouldn't like to fly over the US in one 😝