The Weekly Hoon: Middle East fuel crisis; accelerating climate warming & NZ's health system problems

About this episode

The episode discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, climate change acceleration, and issues within New Zealand's health system.

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics here, along with special guest Helen Clark. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the Iran war, New Zealand’s looming fuel supply issues and Marsden Point. * Bernard then spoke with Cathrine about new research confirming an acceleration of climate change, about research showing a rise in carbon dioxide in bloodstreams, and the links between the Middle East conflicts and climate change. * Then Bernard, Peter, Robert and Helen talked about the current mess in the Middle East, New Zealand’s weak response, our health system and an upcoming play about Helen Clark called ‘ Helen Clark in Six Outfits ’ The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale

Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Helen Clark

Topics covered

• Middle East fuel crisis
• climate change
• New Zealand health system
• geopolitics
• economy
• politics

Keywords

• Middle East
• fuel crisis
• climate change
• New Zealand
• health system
• geopolitics
• economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Hoon, Marsden Point

Books & works: Helen Clark in Six Outfits

Places: New Zealand

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