About this episode

The episode discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, climate change, and a population strategy report with various guests.

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes a discussion with special guest Paul Spoonley about his report this week with Peter Gluckman and Georgia Lala for Koi Tū (Centre for Informed Futures) titled: People, Place & Prosperity - The case for a population strategy. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the conflict in the Middle East and the fuel crisis, along with Christopher Luxon ’s clash this week with Winston Peters over Luxon’s initial plan to express New Zealand’s support for the US attack on Iran. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked about this week’s warning from Earth Sciences NZ about a formidable El Niño later this year and this report showing Europe’s climate warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. * Then Bernard finished with a discussion with Paul about population strategy. The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for…

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Hoon podcast page.