🇳🇿 New Zealand: Polluted Paradise PI | People & Power
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- Polluted Paradise, New Zealand (Part 1) - People and Power
New Zealand's pristine and abundant rivers and lakes have long been central to its proud reputation as a land of breath-taking natural beauty - and fundamental to a clean, green, outdoorsy brand that's used to attract millions of foreign visitors every year.
But are its waterways really as sparkling and bountiful as the tourist ads suggest?
It seems not.
Although the issue hasn't attracted huge global attention, for some years now campaign groups such as Greenpeace have been ringing alarm bells about the deteriorating quality - and curiously diminishing volume - of New Zealand's fresh water, problems they say are both directly attributable to the country's most profitable industry and in danger of being exacerbated by government-backed projects in support of that industry.
People & Power asked filmmaker Naashon Zalk to find out more. His two-part investigation, which we are screening over consecutive episodes, raises troubling questions about what can happen when a nation's desire for economic growth, however understandable and justifiable it may be, takes undue precedence over the environment.
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Suzanne here: Intensive farming was not carried out to this degree in past times...I blame corporate business Fontera and overseas buy up of farms that are ONLY interested in the bottom line, greed.
Money is the root of all evil.
Yeeeees! It's Rogernomics! Literally a sheeeethole....(phonetically in NZ english)
The pollution is obvious to all but blind people
Sad to hear of this, New Zealand would be my first choice if I visited another country. Beautiful country, great people.
GO KIWI's
I lived in NZ for 8 months. I have been told by locals that NZ has lots of polluted parts that tourist rarely go to or see and unless you're a local you'll never know. Its being swept under the carpet for image. I love NZ with all my heart and to see it being destroyed slowly for short economical gains is saddening. I understand farming is big business but the government and local council should really tread lightly and not follow suit like the USA did with pollution and environment. If the land and water goes, it may never recover.
Might change after the elections next week
I emigrated to New Zealand from Germany, and I can confirm that the water here in Christchurch and the surrounding area is not swimmable, it is constantly contaminated with sewage. All beaches are invariably non-swimmable.
@@hprc2002 well? After 5 years, did it change?
@@tahitinguyen4822 Nope and now we have the 3 waters BS.
I'm in NZ. It is true that NZ's clean green image is a grand lie. Just the 1080 issue smashes that myth, but agriculture is the biggest polluter. We could have more of a permaculture system with far less nitrates, but farmers want the yields now and it's the debt that's pushing them. We also have high farmer suicide rates. The doco says the Cow population equals Japan, but i went to Japan and it is a clean country (setting Fukashima aside). NZ is being milked and it's not the cows. The garbage crop of politicians we have would sell their grandmothers for a selfie shot and a few FB likes. The Greens are the worst. Claiming everything for the environment and doing virtually nothing but play the identity politics game. This country is in a lot of trouble and inept leadership is the true cause.
Nicely said,we could do with some of that in parliament.
are we pretending to ignore the Waikato River? The water stinks these days. Swimming in it gives you rashes and infections
Why is it that the counsil doesnt regulate the amount of cows per square meter or per hectare a farmer is allow to have?
@@kayaboosha yeah, i guess that in my willingness to try find a solution, i forgot about that. ☹
I would say that you and both sides of this debate completely missed the main problem. It is not dams or cows, it is the complete lack of trees between the cows and the water. You need a buffer zone guys.
I am Canadian and have been to NZ. It is a beautiful country. Too many trees have been cut there though. It is just like Europe. You need a forest to treat your run off water. Let the nitrogen and phosphorous grow your kauri trees and those fern trees back along with all the Kiwis (birds) and other wildlife that naturally lives there. It is better to grow a forest up quickly with all those nutrients then to grow algae and kill your water.
The shade will reduce your need for so much irrigation too.
I know land is expensive in NZ so you need to work every inch but still... No point in destryoing the water that gives you life mate!
But that would make to much sense, New Zealand is a greedy backwards thinking country thats good at doing everything wrong
I'm a New Zealander heavily involved in dairy. All in this video is true.
Shet bru.
Dairy farmers are destroying our beautiful country. It shows a real lack of imagination that we are dependent on milk production. NZ could produce hemp-based products at a fraction of the environmental cost.
Show me the numbers. Demand? Products? Costing? anything besides 'its naughty, giggle'
Filthy dirty farmers
Contaminated with 1080 the govt drops regularly
while many cite the gas emissions as the main problem the main problem with cows is the runoff of their excrement/ run off of harmful chemicals used on the farms and water use in animal farming is ultimately overstated because that water goes straight back into the ground after said animal dies and instead of relying on dams and farms there should be an effort to diversify and modernize our economy
Who should you believe? Follow the money...
Dams have never helped a river how can they say it will white old cavemen
cool watched it for school its cool
Presumably Professor Death knows what he's talking about!
Wow didnt know Cows cause so much damage!! We need to store that tremendous amount of ammonia they release and start an ammonia chemical plant so it doesnt go to waste into the water system!!
fidel catsro how realistic is that idea? Why not just slaughter the cattle?
the answer is the beef burger...
I agree. NZ govt should do that & create employment at the same time instead of catering to the Chinese who are processing our spring water for China & buying our land to boot. Why didn't our govt do it for us. Stop dropping 1080 as well.
People's health is more important
Why don't the Hawkes Bay grow grapes and wine instead of increasing dairy farms. Dairy products are not very health conscious
Hawkes Bay is called the fruit bowl of NZ. It has a lot of orchards and vineyards already.
Ban industrial farming and push sustainable farming
DIGESTING FARM RUNOFF: When nitrogen and phosphorus are not fully utilized by the growing plants, they can be lost from the farm fields and negatively impact the air, and water quality downstream. Over time this excess nitrogen and phosphorus can be washed from farm fields and into waterways during rain and snow-melt, and can also leach through the soil and into groundwater and acquifers. Agricultural Nitrate and Phospate rich runoff from dairy farms in particular is a problem in New Zealand and other countries. Permaculture “digestor” leach ponds with reeds prior to the actual water entering the streams act as water purifying systems. These could themselves be dug out dried and shredded to be used for fertilizer + soil organic matter soil amendment once a year. By increasing the soil carbon and microbiome this will make the soil more aerobic and reduce the runoff of “unprocessed” nutrient flow. Combine this by following up with shallow pebble bed rapids to increase oxygen in the water will clean up the water prior to it exiting the farm. When farms emit nutrient dense effluent flow it is because systems for nutrient “digestion” and capture on the land are insufficient...it is a "design issue."
3:29 _”Producing a single litter of milk takes a thousand liters of water”_
If this doesn’t scare you shitless and give you goosebumps I don’t know what does
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We have to think very seriously about this!!!!!
New Zealand has been Polluted for the sake of Private Economic Riches so wish these people would be more Environmentally Friendly...such a shame
it kinda lagging
Yes we are green
But we definitely aren’t clean
Our rivers are polluted and last week they closed 25 beaches were deemed unsafe to swim in
Social cost and social benefits need an equal seat at the table of financial capitalism destructive extraction of natural resources.
A issue to be solved by all as a multicultural land & there are definitely better ways of doing things all in all
In reference to the Havelock North poisoning, Campylobacter jejuni is one of the worst food-borne bacteria. If it doesn't kill the victims, it will make them wish for death. The gut pain is just awful.
In USA they are growing almonds and making almond milk to replace cow farms, which sounds like a much much better alternative to cattle farming. They should follow suite! Listen up farmers, switch to almonds!!
Unfortunately almond milk will also cause problems for our health as well. I know it all too well. Had a nut milk business. Even if you soak and sprout almonds (as opposed to boxed milk) you are still ingested a lot of phytic acid and other anti nutrients. Made me very nutrient depleted - on top of being on the vegan diet...:(
to many people on this earth and they all do need food, al the parts of this world will have to be used for farming to feed them all and if the population grows to 10 billion people it only gets worse. Almonds grow only in good weather conditions, in the USA they need to irrigate these almond orchards with water from very deep wells so they run out of water. Here, in New Zealand we grow gras so we have animals that eat gras and produce milk and meat and wol, and yes, if possible, it should be done without polution. But your idea leads to starvation for the hungry
Dirk van de Ven
Professor Death?
I found the general cleanliness in New Zealand dirty way back in 1980 when I visited then.
@das wright Uncontrolled tourism is a problem? hahahahaha You're blaming everything to foreigners, yet you forgot you are a foreigner unless you're Maori.
@Kaz Blackweirdo From mars?
It seems that since Horizons was formed n rate payers had to pay them another rate,more rivers lakes n beach's have been polluted.
Everyone talk about Asian countries rivers no one talk about developed country’s polluted rivers even they are mostly educated people
There's a way to divert the problem
looks like northern canada is the only untouched place
Kiwi's are so cool, "not too bad for a Saturday afternoon" , hie hie hie hie. That must be why they always win the rugby games.
Can the dam!
One billion dollars of public money is a lot of water; maybe that has something to do with council approval.
The other problem New Zealand has is poor urban planning, prioritising mass urban sprawl over environmental and scenic values. In New Zealand they have built housing developments in scenic areas for profit at an expensive of ruining the environment and the very thing that made the country a nice place to live.
Yes sustainable farming
It’s not from the cattle. It’s from water soluble chemical fertiliser. You don’t need to fertilise cow pastures with bought fertiliser. The grasses themselves produce enough sugars through the roots to do that and that cattle then don’t produce the nitrites in quantities to cause nutrification of waterways. The farmers are being led up the garden path. With chemical fertiliser you get an increase in productivity but the farmers don’t get the profit from that, the agrichemical companies make all that. There are also increases in vet costs due to metabolic issues. The solution is very simple. Holistically planned grazing. There are enough properties in nz to monitor the results of this. Farmers don’t make money from nutrients running off their land.
If they go to a holistic planned grazing model they will produce less milk but of a higher quality, the cows health will be better not eating grass full of toxic nitrogen, the farmer will make more money via less input costs. This money will all be spent in the local economy unlike the profit the fertiliser company was making.
The end result will be that you will still have a viable dairy industry and clean waterways. This is not rocket science.
1000s of tons of 1080 being dropped on forests - follow the money
Anti DAMer!
Anti MINEr!
Protect our Planet
so we can
Protect our Mokopuna!
🏔️☔💦🌤️🌏
It’s polluted as the people to be blame and the inaction by the government to enforce its environmental law to preserve the land , river and water in the country.
I JUST LEARNED PEOPLE SLEEPING ON THEIR CARS DURING THE PANDEMIC SO SAD IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LAND 💔🙏
Hahaha and so they made that micro plasma virus thing...as a controlled kill off
Wouldnt be a problem if captain hook to the mug didn't get his way
Composting is the answer, here in WA the department of ecology promoted manure lagoons, ruining small family dairies. Industrial Ag and polulation growth are destroying rural quality of life.
Don't worry, the National party informs us it is not a problem.
Labour reckons all's fine, too. I mean, _surely_ they wouldn't be going ahead with the TPP (despite campaigning against it prior to election) and telling the public it's necessary for the growth of our beef and dairy industries if there was any problem.
Objectively, it certainly seems maintaining human population at a lower level, say by a factor of 100 or so, would have prevented almost every environmental problem. Almost every one has been indoctrinated to believe something else though. How can you contemplate population ecology and not think at all about the sustainable number of individuals making up the population? It seems to be the first thing you learn, if it's not a human population or a population like cattle that exist to serve an enormous human population. In the latter cases, the only principle would seem to be, "the sky is no limit".
Politicians: .08 mg/L that's not really a lot
Scientist: yes it is, look at climate change for example 1 degree Celsius can wipe hectares of coral reef, are you going to say its not a drastic change?
Politicians: well we agree to disagree, we have our own opinions and clearly i don't believe you.
Scientist: Well maybe we should change jobs and professions cuz you're clearly trained in this field to a point you can discredit my educated/research findings with your hypothesis
Those who own the Dams will decide whether you get water or NOT!
Yeah! Nah!
New Zealand needs a peaceful political revolution like the UK is having right now. Flush out the major parties and bring in a new party where no land is sold to foreigners and the number one policy should be to house everyone with 1% interest on their first home. The next major policy should be to shrink the meat and milk production industries to 10% of what they are now.
hello
It's the cows fault
it made international news' no it didn't ...
of course it didnt people ultimately dont care about real issues just the most interesting ones thats the problem with democracy
WE ONLY NEED 1 OUT OF ERY 100 FARMERS
MOSLIM COUNTRY??
Please don't give the dam a Maori name!
It's called $$$$$ greedy human behaviour money is the must addictive substance on our planet
Its not nz or aotearoa its Aokealoa and the Hawaiian Kānaka from Māui were the first to discover Aokealoa in 850.BC.
Maori are basically tahitian, rarotongans, micronesians and melanesians.
Ok who's getting payed and who's not cause you not doing any injustice by playing with nature with dams comes rules, sorry but you all take the big money option.
Won't get the money to do dam constructions with the $1 billion dollar firearm buy back !
Too many humans!
Stop blaming the cows!
ban urea and ban discharging primary treated sewage direct to the Waipawa and Tuki tuki rivers
If we stop farming so many cows it would be very good for the planet.
A lot of talk no action lot of bullshet or cowshet
BAN ALL XPORTS OF NZ MILK AND FOOD REST WORLD FEED UR SELF
Coruption
time to vote with a gun nz
A surreptitious drama queen narrator with Maori vowels is hardly optimal.
AND ALL GE FERT AND PESTICIDES DAME GREEDY FARMERS
Hand it back to the rightful owners MAORI only we can look after the WATER OCEAN AND FOREST proply because they are sacred to US PERIOD
Haha