Environment

Cartoon depicts PM Chris Hipkins and minister of finance minister Grant Robertson standing on a broken stopbank labelled 'Disaster Budget' watching floods from cyclone Gabrielle rush through saying "we need to build back better safer and a wee bit higher"

Cartoon depicts planet earth viewed from space above New Zealand which says "We're too small to make a difference" while a huge cyclone cloud ( Gabrielle ) replying "you still matter to me"

Cartoon depicts a farmer dad standing next to his daughter by a stream while viewing a colour coded sunrise representing 'Average Global Temp 1850 - 2018 saying to his 'Red sky in the morning shepherds warning..." Originally created by climatologist Ed Hawkins to show blue (cooler) to red (warmer) years long-term increase of average global temperature.

"Everything on this one" says a middle aged pale male denialist as he pushes all his chips on to the square marked 'best case scenario' - "no more bets" says the figure of death labelled 'climate change' - while a blond woman holds the arm of the big spender.

Cartoon depicts a hurdles race being won by a progressive farmer leaping over hurdles labelled as 'Lower Emissions' while a losing competitor angrily ploughs through hurdles labelled 'Rainforest PKE' 'Water Quality' 'Greenhouse Gases' 'Adapt or Die' 'Climate Change' crying "Why do they hate us?" caption - 'Opportunity knocks in future for food & fibre- news'

'Farms of the future - #1 Locust Ranch' - features a cowboy riding not a horse but a giant locust and watching hundreds of locusts swarming across the plain below...Locust,climate,change,agriculture,future,pests,locust,farming,dystopian,cowboy,western,scifi,

Cartoon depicts 'Farmers' Day Parade 2030' with carnival floats full of happy farmers and rural people & interest groups celebrating reaching carbon neutrality with signs reading 'We did it' 'Cleaner waterways' 'Low nitrates' 'Greenest farms in the world' 'More customers - more farmers' 'Better Brands - higher payouts' 'World Leaders of regenerative farming' to applause from onlookers.

Cartoon depicts a granfather sitting in his recliner chair with a grand-daughter sitting on his kee asking "So pops what did you do in the great covid pandemic?" he answers "I denied its existence -refused to wear a mask - attended mass-spreader events - harassed doctors - peddled quack cures - tied up scarce health resources - complained about inconvenience - yep my medal should be arriving any day" Title - '2030'

"It's ridiculous to ban set-netting just to save a few midget dolphins" says captain of a fishing boat on the edge of a giant waterfall at the end of the world marked 'Anthropocene Mass-Extinction'.

Publication/Scheduled Issue 1927 - NZ Listener Jun 29-Jul 5 2019

Cartoon depicts a smokey ute driver commenting on a protester placard about lowering the voting age to 16 #makeit16 "That's crazy - young people can't make rational long term decisions" - while other placards read 'Save the planet' 'Don't burn our future' 'There is no planet B'

Cartoon depicts NZGreen Party leader James Shaw as James Bond 'COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference - No time to die' "The name's Shaw - James Shaw - Save a room in MIQ for the planet"

Cartoon depicts two frames 'Today' features a boardroom CEO saying "Acknowledge climate change? Ha -over our dead bodies!" as his fellow exucutives laugh -'2050' shows a graveyard eroded by storm waters bodies floating away "Oh no floods have uncovered the boomers again"

Cartoon depicts a three-storied building marooned in flood waters labelled 'Climate Change' -"Just as well we allowed buildings to go to three stories when we did" says a man on the third floor.

Cartoon shows man selling old window frames in a demolition yard with a sign labelled 'Just in - Windows 1900'

Cartoon shows a man labelled 'NZ' carrying a larger pile of broken appliances to a waste heap saying to a woman carrying a small rubbish basket "We're chucking out way above our weight"

Cartoon shows a nervous businessman as a female repair worker takes out a large spanner from a 'De-construction kit' box as they both contemplate a dirty machine spewing polluted fluids and gases ou labelled 'Mass consumerism & waste'

"Everything on this one" says a middle aged pale male denialist as he pushes all his chips on to the square marked 'best case scenario' - "no more bets" says the figure of death labelled 'climate change' - while a blond woman holds the arm of the big spender.

Stupid mammals whadda they know? Yeah! The climate has always changed! They're parroting the parrots" say the dinosaurs to amammal Greta Thunberg as a climate change asteroid approaches.

Panel 1 - "man-made climate-change? Ha! What rot? Go back to school!" commands a conservative white male to two kids who reply "Ok dad..."

Panel 2- steam blows out the ears of the same conservative white male as he looks in a classroom window and realises his kids are being taught about the reality of climate change in science class.

"All we need to do to avoid global catastrophe is reduce subsidies for giant asteroids" proclaims a T-rex dinosaur to a group of fellow dinosaurs as one small mammal rushes for a hole as asteroids enter the atmosphere.

"There's a deadly new virus on the planet" says one person "No kidding" says another from a planet infested by jet passenger airliners swarming all over it in a manner akin to flies feeding on rotten fruit.

Cartoon depicts a line of motorists in stationary cars stuck in traffic irritated by a variety of pedestrians passing them including cyclists skaters scooters skaters EV mobility vehicle

Cartoon depicts two frogs in a pond on lily pads one says - "When humans start dying that's when I'm going to worry about the environment"

A line of amphibian cars drives off the road into the sea as one driver says to a passenger "Funny to recall just a few years ago no one was driving these"

Title - 'Critically Endangered Species: The Denialist Bird - Help save this rare bird - forgive generously' - an elderely armchair warrior squawks and snorts in reaction to the headline on his computer screen - IPCC - global warming worse to come as his environment heats up.

'In the Year 2060' Many houses are sitting on poles in a flooded area while a woman says to a grumpy-faced man "Well at least we kept taxes low."

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Caption - West Coast Regional council claims science on global warming not settled - news -"The sea temperature always has these warm patches" says on of a group of suited white men standing in yellow stained seawater.

Planet earth floats in space charred to a smoking cinder while an alien spaceship hovers nearby "What do you expect from carbon based lifeforms?" asks one crystalline alien of a companion...Planet,earth,space,cinder,alien,spaceship,carbon,lifeforms,crystalline,alien,companion,global,warming,climate,change,environmental,disaster,armageddon,

"Experts are divided on whether Rome is actually getting warmer" "This is a natural cycle - rise -decline- fall -sacking" "The alarmists have vested interests in aqueducts".says romans to an complacentemporer playing the lute or fiddle...Rome,Romans,fire,burning,global,warming,denier,denialism,climate,crisis,warnings,science,Nero,inaction,alarmist,

"This is where we throw away our paddles" says a TourismNZ rafting tour guide to his passengers as they paddle down a dirty creek surrounded by cattle unrestrained by fences.

Cartoon depicts a farmer and an Environmental Science Research scientist holding a sample of river water "How does it look?" "A lot clearer than the debate"

Cartoon depicts the Greens party measuring soil moisture of grass on a bluff "The climate message hasn't yet sunk in deeply enough"
caption 'Green drought looms' (where there is just enough rain to make the countryside look lush, but not enough to relieve dry conditions…)

Cartoon depicts a male farmer on a hilltop with his farmer wife & family indicating a farm below "One day all this will be a lower carbon mix of kale almonds & quinoa - plus some sheep and beef"

Cartoon depicts Fonterra's new electric milk tanker driving past a bunch of utes lined up at the service station with high fuel prices - driver tooting his horn to a number of ute drivers looking perplexed as petrol pumps glug fuel into their thirsty vehicles.

https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/fonterra-powers-ahead-with-electric-milk-tanker/

Cartoon depicts a waka labelled 'He Waka Eke Noa' paddled by a crew some of whom are bailing water while two are drilling holes in the hull and holding a sign 'Help we are sinking' refers to a five-year programme to empower farmers and growers to measure, manage and reduce on-farm emissions in New Zealand

how about something on the mad weather - tornadoes in Canterbury today, big rain here, maybe a farmer looking across his field while holding a paper that says ZCB passes, and he says, hopefully we'll get 24-47% less extreme weather too...Farmers will know the % figure, it's the range of methane emissions in the ZCB target.

Cartoon depicts a methane satellite broadcasting to a cow who has just burned "daisy Daisy You have exceeded your daily methane allowance!"

Cartoon depicts the display from an online fantasy game called Climate Quest - 'Join The Quest' open with 'Defeat Fossilosaur' option selected created for Climate Quest - Fossilosaur dragon representing the addiction to fossil fuel reserves, suppliers and associated industries - a player avatar is ready to select options from the game panel such as - vote - join - ask - organize - protest - support - boycott - while other players are wielding various 'eco' powers represented by microphone a sun & green lightning. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Cartoon showing an arched bridge with a gold keystone. The gold keystone is Climate, which supports the other blocks that make up the arch: Food, Health, Jobs, Homes, Affordability, Safety, and Freedom. The gold Climate keystone is being weakened by a crane seizing a chunk of it. A group of people stands on the bridge looking on in dismay. One says, “We should do something!” Another responds, “More paper straws?” The digger that is changing the climate interjects, “The climate has always changed.” Artist Chris Slane @SlaneCartoons, License CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://www.slanecartoon.com/-/galleries/climate-quest-cartoons

Cartoon about how many degrees of warming we choose to allow from fossil fuels and other sources of greenhouse gases. A massive billboard advertises three earths. The first earth, labelled “Stable Climate”, is billed as “proven to work for 10,000 years”, but is “sold out by fossil fuels”. The second earth, labelled “Liveable Earth”, requires us to “clean up energy, reduce waste, protect nature”, and we need to “act now, offer closes soon”. The third earth, labelled “Hell Knows!”, tempts us to “pay later, how bad could it be?” In front of the billboard, a man and a girl stand in front of the two earths that we can still choose between. The girl points enthusiastically to a “Liveable Earth”. The man seems undecided as he looks towards a future of “Hell Knows!” His briefcase says “Business as Usual”. Artist Chris Slane @SlaneCartoons, License CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cartoon about the history of climate science - The first panel shows the American scientist and inventor Eunice Newton Foote in her conservatory in 1856. Her experiment with a cylinder of air and a cylinder of carbon dioxide is in front of her - She observes “Hmm - this gas would give our earth a high temperature - Fortunately nature is in balance" - On the right we see an oil baron of the same era saying, “Hold my beer!” He is wheeling a dripping barrel labeled “Gigatons of Carbon” and behind him we see a gushing oil well - piles of coal- industrial smokestacks- and methane flaring - subtitle - 'More carbon dioxide = more heating' - Artist Chris Slane @SlaneCartoons - License CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cartoon depicts one man with a large carbon shadow accuses another man with a smaller carbon shadow "Aha eating a burger eh? So much for saving the planet!" Second man replies "Bro I don't have to be perfect only helpful".License CC BY-SA 4.0.

Depicts pipes and a temperature gauge measuring Global Heat going into the red showing city and rural people supporting various measures to lower heat. Cartoon depicts the display from an online fantasy game called Climate Quest - 'Join The Quest' open with 'Defeat Fossilosaur' option selected created for Climate Quest - Fossilosaur dragon representing the addiction to fossil fuel reserves, suppliers and associated industries - a player avatar is ready to select options from the game panel such as - vote - join - ask - organize - protest - support - boycott - while other players are wielding various 'eco' powers represented by microphone a sun & green lightning. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Illustration of a cow as a vat of bubbling gases.