Olli Krollmann
@ollikr.bsky.social
Concerned citizen of planet Earth
Storytelling is so important. Scaring people into action doesn't work, and neither does mythbusting or fact-checking. But every culture has its stories, lore, or written or oral records, and that's what we respond to, because it triggers our imagination, not a fight, flight or freeze response.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Storytelling is so important. Scaring people into action doesn't work, and neither does mythbusting or fact-checking. But every culture has its stories, lore, or written or oral records, and that's what we respond to, because it triggers our imagination, not a fight, flight or freeze response.
I hope that Fonterra will go bankrupt by 2030. Many farmers will need our help to move sideways, diversify or exit this dirty industry, and Aotearoa will finally get the chance to switch to a weightless, digital, knowledge-based economy where the tyranny of distance doesn't count. It has to happen.
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I hope that Fonterra will go bankrupt by 2030. Many farmers will need our help to move sideways, diversify or exit this dirty industry, and Aotearoa will finally get the chance to switch to a weightless, digital, knowledge-based economy where the tyranny of distance doesn't count. It has to happen.
Who are these four guys? Are they politicians, or are these the CEOs of the four gentailers?
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Who are these four guys? Are they politicians, or are these the CEOs of the four gentailers?
I wonder what kind of future the members and supporters of these ag lobby groups envision for their children and grandchildren. Do they care?
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I wonder what kind of future the members and supporters of these ag lobby groups envision for their children and grandchildren. Do they care?
Here's hope that Fonterra will put themselves out of business in three to six years time, when their ill-fated deal with Lactalis is up for renewal, and the French dairy giant chooses to eliminate the competition.
It will ruin a lot of NZ dairy farmers, so they will need our help to diversify.
It will ruin a lot of NZ dairy farmers, so they will need our help to diversify.
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Here's hope that Fonterra will put themselves out of business in three to six years time, when their ill-fated deal with Lactalis is up for renewal, and the French dairy giant chooses to eliminate the competition.
It will ruin a lot of NZ dairy farmers, so they will need our help to diversify.
It will ruin a lot of NZ dairy farmers, so they will need our help to diversify.
How is that consistent with our decades-old belief that National is "better at managing the economy"?
October 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
How is that consistent with our decades-old belief that National is "better at managing the economy"?
The world seems to notice. Hope the world will soon stop trading with us. It's pretty much the only thing left to make this Coalition of Cruelty learn ... sinking their "growth, growth, growth" agenda.
We are wasting such a tremendous opportunity to be leaders in climate action. I'm so ashamed.
We are wasting such a tremendous opportunity to be leaders in climate action. I'm so ashamed.
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The world seems to notice. Hope the world will soon stop trading with us. It's pretty much the only thing left to make this Coalition of Cruelty learn ... sinking their "growth, growth, growth" agenda.
We are wasting such a tremendous opportunity to be leaders in climate action. I'm so ashamed.
We are wasting such a tremendous opportunity to be leaders in climate action. I'm so ashamed.
Nestlé already quit the global alliance on reducing methane emissions, so there will be less pressure from them, too.
For a while I was hoping the industry would start pushing for climate action themselves, once they figured out that keeping the planet liveable is good for business. Silly me 🤦♂️
For a while I was hoping the industry would start pushing for climate action themselves, once they figured out that keeping the planet liveable is good for business. Silly me 🤦♂️
Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissions
Food group Nestle said on Wednesday it had withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.
www.reuters.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nestlé already quit the global alliance on reducing methane emissions, so there will be less pressure from them, too.
For a while I was hoping the industry would start pushing for climate action themselves, once they figured out that keeping the planet liveable is good for business. Silly me 🤦♂️
For a while I was hoping the industry would start pushing for climate action themselves, once they figured out that keeping the planet liveable is good for business. Silly me 🤦♂️
And all this for animal protein products with an energy efficiency of less than 5%, used as ingredients for junk food that nobody really needs.
I hope the whole industry goes bankrupt by 2030, when it fails to adapt to the very changes it has been contributing to.
I hope the whole industry goes bankrupt by 2030, when it fails to adapt to the very changes it has been contributing to.
October 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
And all this for animal protein products with an energy efficiency of less than 5%, used as ingredients for junk food that nobody really needs.
I hope the whole industry goes bankrupt by 2030, when it fails to adapt to the very changes it has been contributing to.
I hope the whole industry goes bankrupt by 2030, when it fails to adapt to the very changes it has been contributing to.
Marc Daalder at Newsroom wrote it up very nicely.
Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack
Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.
newsroom.co.nz
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Marc Daalder at Newsroom wrote it up very nicely.
And then there's this, which is all the more reason to reduce methane emissions we CAN control.
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
New seeps of methane are being discovered at an "astonishing rate," scientists have found.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And then there's this, which is all the more reason to reduce methane emissions we CAN control.
I feel so full of rage, hate and shame right now.
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I feel so full of rage, hate and shame right now.
I'm in! In fact, I stopped eating beef and lamb altogether, not because of activism or veganism (I still identify as flexitarian), but simply because I had always had trouble digesting red meat, and I understand that now. I've been feeling so much better since I switched to a plant-rich diet.
October 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I'm in! In fact, I stopped eating beef and lamb altogether, not because of activism or veganism (I still identify as flexitarian), but simply because I had always had trouble digesting red meat, and I understand that now. I've been feeling so much better since I switched to a plant-rich diet.
I'm anxiously waiting for the details of the "Deploy Waste to Energy" solution, because it is rated as "worthwhile". I hope this doesn't include waste incineration, which would be quite an unpleasant surprise.
October 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm anxiously waiting for the details of the "Deploy Waste to Energy" solution, because it is rated as "worthwhile". I hope this doesn't include waste incineration, which would be quite an unpleasant surprise.
It's telling that the sector with the most headroom left - stratospheric ozone depletion - is the one issue we took decisive action on, with the Montreal Protocol in 1989.
There's a lesson learnt in this. Unfortunately we're way too mad, angry and riled up by now, to listen to reason anymore.
There's a lesson learnt in this. Unfortunately we're way too mad, angry and riled up by now, to listen to reason anymore.
October 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It's telling that the sector with the most headroom left - stratospheric ozone depletion - is the one issue we took decisive action on, with the Montreal Protocol in 1989.
There's a lesson learnt in this. Unfortunately we're way too mad, angry and riled up by now, to listen to reason anymore.
There's a lesson learnt in this. Unfortunately we're way too mad, angry and riled up by now, to listen to reason anymore.
Actually, all basic needs (food, water, shelter, energy, internet access, education, healthcare, transport and banking) should be provided by not-for-profit organisations, which could be owned by government, employees, customers, or a combination thereof. This would take a lot of pressure off us.
September 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Actually, all basic needs (food, water, shelter, energy, internet access, education, healthcare, transport and banking) should be provided by not-for-profit organisations, which could be owned by government, employees, customers, or a combination thereof. This would take a lot of pressure off us.
I'm happy for my neighbours at Pākiri. Now McCallum will come to Bream Bay under the Coalition of Cruelty's Fast Wreck scheme, so they can avoid consultation with locals and lengthy court proceedings.
It's just like TTR did it in Taranaki. Drop all current engagements and go all-in on Fast Wreck.
It's just like TTR did it in Taranaki. Drop all current engagements and go all-in on Fast Wreck.
September 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm happy for my neighbours at Pākiri. Now McCallum will come to Bream Bay under the Coalition of Cruelty's Fast Wreck scheme, so they can avoid consultation with locals and lengthy court proceedings.
It's just like TTR did it in Taranaki. Drop all current engagements and go all-in on Fast Wreck.
It's just like TTR did it in Taranaki. Drop all current engagements and go all-in on Fast Wreck.
I'm one of those shareholders. I got lucky and was allotted shares of the three gentailers when 49% of each were sold off a decade ago. Since then the dividends have pretty much paid for my power bills.
It's a perverse situation we're in. I understand this now, and I fully support renationalisation.
It's a perverse situation we're in. I understand this now, and I fully support renationalisation.
August 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I'm one of those shareholders. I got lucky and was allotted shares of the three gentailers when 49% of each were sold off a decade ago. Since then the dividends have pretty much paid for my power bills.
It's a perverse situation we're in. I understand this now, and I fully support renationalisation.
It's a perverse situation we're in. I understand this now, and I fully support renationalisation.
What a callous, uncaring and aloof person one has to be to push such an agenda.
We allowed this to become mainstream. In the past such deals were done under the table and in the dark. Nowadays they can shout it from the rooftops and make front-page news.
And we lap it up and keep voting for them.
We allowed this to become mainstream. In the past such deals were done under the table and in the dark. Nowadays they can shout it from the rooftops and make front-page news.
And we lap it up and keep voting for them.
August 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What a callous, uncaring and aloof person one has to be to push such an agenda.
We allowed this to become mainstream. In the past such deals were done under the table and in the dark. Nowadays they can shout it from the rooftops and make front-page news.
And we lap it up and keep voting for them.
We allowed this to become mainstream. In the past such deals were done under the table and in the dark. Nowadays they can shout it from the rooftops and make front-page news.
And we lap it up and keep voting for them.
And on top of that, the gentailers agree to stockpile coal at Huntly Station.
If the Coalition of Cruelty are really so good at running the country, why do they consistently ignore the cheapest way of electricity generation, which also happens to be fuelled by a virtually unlimited power source?
If the Coalition of Cruelty are really so good at running the country, why do they consistently ignore the cheapest way of electricity generation, which also happens to be fuelled by a virtually unlimited power source?
Gentailers agree to stockpile coal at Huntly Power Station
The country's big four power companies have signed an agreement to set up a coal stockpile at Huntly Power Station.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
And on top of that, the gentailers agree to stockpile coal at Huntly Station.
If the Coalition of Cruelty are really so good at running the country, why do they consistently ignore the cheapest way of electricity generation, which also happens to be fuelled by a virtually unlimited power source?
If the Coalition of Cruelty are really so good at running the country, why do they consistently ignore the cheapest way of electricity generation, which also happens to be fuelled by a virtually unlimited power source?
I feel so fricking mad, angry and ashamed right now, particularly about us giving politicians like Shane Jones so much coverage and oxygen, when we should actually laugh them down, or (even better) ignore them.
August 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I feel so fricking mad, angry and ashamed right now, particularly about us giving politicians like Shane Jones so much coverage and oxygen, when we should actually laugh them down, or (even better) ignore them.
At this point my hope is that traditional farming goes bankrupt by 2030, once we've figured out how to make animal-equivalent protein in a steel vat, with a fraction of the energy, emissions, land and cost.
I'd rather help farmers transition, but they seem to be hell-bent on confrontation instead.
I'd rather help farmers transition, but they seem to be hell-bent on confrontation instead.
July 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
At this point my hope is that traditional farming goes bankrupt by 2030, once we've figured out how to make animal-equivalent protein in a steel vat, with a fraction of the energy, emissions, land and cost.
I'd rather help farmers transition, but they seem to be hell-bent on confrontation instead.
I'd rather help farmers transition, but they seem to be hell-bent on confrontation instead.
Yep. I certainly would. Even up to 3% wouldn't hurt me. It's probably what I would otherwise pay on adaptation, damage control, repairs, increased prices etc anyway.
July 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yep. I certainly would. Even up to 3% wouldn't hurt me. It's probably what I would otherwise pay on adaptation, damage control, repairs, increased prices etc anyway.