Conservation Group Praised for 'Depoliticising the Environment'

The purchase of a tract of Brooklyn native forest by Wellington conservation groups was praised by Libertarianz Environment Deregulation Spokesman Peter Cresswell as a great example of how to "depoliticise the environment".

"Buying this native bush - gaining the protection for the land of such
private property rights as still exist in New Zealand - offers much surer
environmental protection for the land than if it had remained a prisoner of
the political process," says Cresswell

As Colin Ryder, Natural Heritage Trust trustee said, "their first priority
[will be to] arrange for the forest to be legally protected in perpetuity".

"Now this forest is out of the hands of disinterested bureaucrats," says
Cresswell, " and in the hands of private property owners, that long term
protection can be achieved with much more assurance."

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>