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A clear & valuable summary state-of-the-planet sunopsis..BUT the demicratic deficit csn blow-out with global trumpism..look (& weep) at the deletion in 2024 of decades of hard-won basic environmental law protecting New Zealand waterways and biodiversity habitatat. In the mother of all policy bonfires. Why? To enable intensive dairying and mining of coal and "critical minerals" in our fragile River systems and marine continental shelf regions. This paradox of political lurch to extreme right as consumption or militarism -driven scarcity raises prices and needs a name. Like Overshoot Capitalism?

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