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Huge protest marches; hundreds of vessels, from surfboards to sailboats to tugboats, on the water blocking the entrance of the nuclear powered Pintado; the Waterside Workers Union refusing to handle the lines; communities all around the country declaring themselves nuclear free; stickers on letterboxes - the kiwi disease was a happening thing!
What I feel most when I look at old images of the nuclear free struggle is, inspired. It was an extraordinarily empowering time, when what you did as an individual counted and added to the growing chorus of New Zealanders who wholeheartedly believed in a nuclear free future for our country. We also believed in our power to change things and that belief motivated people to make it a reality. It was something we just weren't prepared to lose.
Well, we need some of that people power again; this time for the sake of our climate, for the sake of our futures and for the sake of our children's futures.
Politicians are currently falling over each other to talk climate - make no mistake it is the defining issue our time, of our grandchildren's time and our next elections! But this issue is far too important to be left to politicians. Everyone needs to be involved. We need as many people as possible who're able to smell a rat in politicians' promises and who're willing to stand up and say so. Unless we have a plan that actually addresses the problem - rather than one that's economically acceptable - we're going to be in serious trouble.
I'm reminded of what Ryunosuke Satoro said, "Individually we are a drop; together we are an ocean". Simple really. We need to draw on our history, and on our capacity as a country to use our people power for the collective good. We - you and me - need to save our climate.
What I feel most when I look at old images of the nuclear free struggle is, inspired. It was an extraordinarily empowering time, when what you did as an individual counted and added to the growing chorus of New Zealanders who wholeheartedly believed in a nuclear free future for our country. We also believed in our power to change things and that belief motivated people to make it a reality. It was something we just weren't prepared to lose.
Well, we need some of that people power again; this time for the sake of our climate, for the sake of our futures and for the sake of our children's futures.
Politicians are currently falling over each other to talk climate - make no mistake it is the defining issue our time, of our grandchildren's time and our next elections! But this issue is far too important to be left to politicians. Everyone needs to be involved. We need as many people as possible who're able to smell a rat in politicians' promises and who're willing to stand up and say so. Unless we have a plan that actually addresses the problem - rather than one that's economically acceptable - we're going to be in serious trouble.
I'm reminded of what Ryunosuke Satoro said, "Individually we are a drop; together we are an ocean". Simple really. We need to draw on our history, and on our capacity as a country to use our people power for the collective good. We - you and me - need to save our climate.
