The Weekly Hoon: Luxon lives on; Iran is winning and the role of Jevons Paradox in climate change

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with special guests Jonathan Lyons, PhD on Iran and NZME’s Fran O’Sullivan. \* Bernard and Peter talked about the developments in New Zealand’s political economy in the last week, including **PM Christopher Luxon’s** second win in a caucus confidence vote in four months. \* Peter, Bernard and Catherine then talked about the **Climate Commission’s** latest report on where the Government was failing to achieve its legislated emissions reduction goals, and the idea of Jevons Paradox. Cathrine referred to this IMF paper on the issue. \* Peter mentioned this article from the FT-$ (gift) article from Pilita Clark on *‘How to stop global warming.’* \* Peter, Bernard, Robert and Jonathan then talked about Iran’s apparent victory over the United States, which Jonathan will be writing about on his Substack Signal to Noise: History. Philosophy. Commentary. \* Peter, Bernard and Fran then talked about the National Caucus’s leadership debate and the differences between Helen Clark, John Key and Christopher Luxon. They discussed Fran’s column in the NZ Herald-$ on how Clark handled **Foreign Minister** **Winston Peters** when they were in Government together. *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 else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues.* *Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free.* Ngā mihi nui. Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe