[irreversiblechaos]

I am an actual New Zealander and have a few points.

Houses. The houses are built of wood because that was what was available and in an earthquake give me a wood framed house although some towns in the south island have old brick homes. There’s even a clod house in Timaru somewhere. Thats the up side.

The houses built after 1980 should be insulated with the standard getting better unfortunately a lot of house built after 1990 leak and rot due to a free market approach to building standards

Houses built before 1980 only have insulation if retrofitted a proportion do but often only roof and floors insulation. I live in the central south island and my well built 1930’s house has almost no insulation and visible gaps around the doors although it sounds worse than it is as the temps rarely stay below 0 degrees C for the day with minimums of -8C generally rising to 10C in winter so quite bearable.

Money

Money is kind of like water in that you want to spread it around and slow it’s flow but taking the water thing further and mixing it with the little town I live in the problem with money is that it is only comes from a few wells far from most people (banks) and access to it is limited to those who already have assets (or buckets). It just doesn’t rain on everyone and it often takes a lot of hard work to get it but at insufficient amounts to survive with. This requires a top up from the government which takes it from others who often by luck have a bit more. Then we all have to give a portion back to the well so they can take it back to the thirsty mouths in Australia being their shareholders

As for animals in rivers this has always happened just we have a lot more animals because we need to export our way out of our debt as we need to grow the pie so that we can become a country rich enough to clean up our environment or something like that. At least we can rely on our house prices inflating to keep us going.

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