What industries are immune from climate change? If there’s energy and food insecurity, that’s a cause of massive cost increases just to maintain the status quo.
Now we’ve pulled the rug out from under legislation ensuring our supply chains are free from slave labour, I suppose we could get into the people smuggling business. Though that would undercut calls to stop the boats.
But with the people who live on low lying areas in the Pacific and South East Asia, if we can afford to buy ships that are sea worthy, we could charge a premium to ship them to NZ. That’s a climate change opportunity.
I suppose we could have got into the clean tech business anytime in the last 30 years. But that’s R & D and NZ businesses don’t do that. They just complain about bicycles, rather than put in a couple of bicycle parks. If bicycles can destroy businesses, climate change challenges are a bit of a big ask. Imagine if NZ had created Tesla housing?
Or our last profitable industry that’s relatively unexploited- our old people’s health. That is to say, for those dependent on the state services now, rather than those already covered by private insurance. Our stock market is mostly ex-state monopolies so soon we’ll be able to trade in the treatment of our overhang population.
Now we’ve pulled the rug out from under legislation ensuring our supply chains are free from slave labour, I suppose we could get into the people smuggling business. Though that would undercut calls to stop the boats.
But with the people who live on low lying areas in the Pacific and South East Asia, if we can afford to buy ships that are sea worthy, we could charge a premium to ship them to NZ. That’s a climate change opportunity.
I suppose we could have got into the clean tech business anytime in the last 30 years. But that’s R & D and NZ businesses don’t do that. They just complain about bicycles, rather than put in a couple of bicycle parks. If bicycles can destroy businesses, climate change challenges are a bit of a big ask. Imagine if NZ had created Tesla housing?
Or our last profitable industry that’s relatively unexploited- our old people’s health. That is to say, for those dependent on the state services now, rather than those already covered by private insurance. Our stock market is mostly ex-state monopolies so soon we’ll be able to trade in the treatment of our overhang population.