🧪⚒️ Sad to see that it's New Zealand's turn to suffer the potentially deadly costs of a right wing government's contempt for scientific expertise. Skimping on geohazards monitoring and risk assessment in a country bisected by a plate boundary? What could go wrong?

Cost cutting could ‘devastate’ research on NZ’s biggest tsunami threat - 85 experts

Dozens of the world's top geoscientists have urged GNS to rethink axing 46 research jobs.

NZME ie. NZ Herald and their sister brands are directly culpable for this government and its policies. I do like how they play both sides though but when push comes to shove - their ideology is money and this government.

This earlier article makes it clearer that most of the cuts at GNS are a direct result of the government cutting their funding. One specific program mentioned is NZ's seismic monitoring network, which is insanity.

Workers monitoring natural hazards among GNS scientists facing axe

Institute says Government funding drop partly behind plans to axe more than 100 roles.