It is official, the local body election candidacy nominations have closed and yours truly is in the mix, as both mayoral candidate (fifth time) and for your voice on the Canterbury District Health Board.

I have already given my inaugural opening campaign speech at ARA to the group we will be hearing much more about, "Extinction Rebellion". When it comes to Climate and what that means there is much to be depressed about, but I do not accept the inevitable.

My primary advocacy in this context is to give direction to where we as a civic group of citizens might take a lead role in advocacy within the ambit of Pacific nations and beyond, starting with 'saving the southern hemisphere' and thereby fixing the north....

I proposed the establishment (as I have done now for many years) of a strong enabled antipodean advocacy for the global commons and the southern oceans and those who live amongst it.

See http://gci.org.uk and the principles of "Contraction and Convergence" as a means to enable measurable progress locally, nationally and globally - thinking beyond zero carbon.

Alternatives don't bear thinking about, and, clearly, the not thinking about it is leading us down the rabbit hole. So let us restart the beyond disaster thinking and into solution space thinking. It is the only productive endeavour we can gift to our children. Money no longer matters.

We will have a new conference center... let's fill it by inviting the world to come, engage, protect and preserve the best of humanity, nature and the planet as we have always known it, before it is goodnight nurse!


Blair Anderson
http://mildgreens.blogspot.com