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Earlier this month, Oscar Perress was able to talk to Samuel Miller McDonald, a journalist, writer and student currently based in the UK for his studies at Oxford. Though talking for over an hour, their discussion around Covid-19 can be understood as a discussion on systems.

In the initial weeks of mass shutdowns, false claims of environmental regeneration circulated the media and internet alike. Apparently in Italy, marine life returned to the Venetian canals that have long been polluted by nitrous dioxide, but where the water is now clearer than it has been in sixty years. The lower air pollution, according to one study in China, caused by Covid-19, also may save up to 77,000 lives. To this, there was a reactionary groundswell parroting The Matrix’s Agent Smith, in identifying us, humans, as the virus that has created Papatūānuku’s ills. One tweet from @ThomasSchuIz offering Agent Smith’s line verbatim has over 297,000 likes at time of writing. Many in political circles, including Oscar himself initially, pointed at posts promoting Covid-19 as a solution for environmental recovery, be it true or not, as examples of 'eco-fascism'.

Miller McDonald unpacks this discourse a little more and expands discussing the dangers of arbitrarily and incorrectly labelling political phenomena as such, referencing a recent editorial Miller McDonald wrote for Current Affairs Magazine.

They also discussed conceptualising a response to the climate crisis from Covid-19 and the effect that national emergencies have on our everyday structures. You can find the rest of this series written by Oscar Perress, online by bCast or on air through out the next 2 weeks. You can also access the article mentioned in this piece on Current Affairs, titled ‘It’s not Ecofascism – it’s Liberalism’. Miller McDonald’s other work is accessible on www.samueljmm.com.

In the US, the Food and Drug Administration recently expanded its blood donation eligibility criteria for men who have sex with men (MSM).

The FDA said it will now recommend "individual risk-based questions" be asked to every blood donor, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender, or sex. 

Restrictions on blood donation for MSM have been in place since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. But many now view these restrictions as discriminatory, unnecessarily restrictive, and inconsistent with modern, HIV prevention approaches.

The UK and Canada similarly lifted some restrictions on MSM donating blood. But Aotearoa has not followed. 

The NZ Blood Service would not be interviewed but did provide a statement to 95bFM. 

They said they recognise this is an important issue for many New Zealanders. And as more countries move to a deferral criteria based on individual behaviours it will increase the body of evidence necessary for New Zealand Blood Service to make an informed recommendation to Medsafe about changes to our own donor behaviour deferral criteria.

They said they have been working with the University of Auckland on its Sex and Prevention of Transmission study and hope the results of this study will provide vital evidence-based New Zealand data that will also help inform our future recommendations.

News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Tony Scriamporn, a PhD student from the school of population health and medicine at the University of Auckland, who is investigating attitudes and behaviours towards blood donation amongst gay and bisexual men. Scriamporn is also a part of the SPOTS study. 

She started off the interview by asking Scriamporn what these changes in the US mean for the country's blood supply.

This week on Green Desk, Wire Host Sara takes a deep-dive into the environmental issues surrounding the proliferation of AI technology, particularly in New Zealand.

In the context of Luxon’s recent announcement about a $7.5 billion investment by Amazon Web Services into data centres in New Zealand, alongside the rapid adoption of generative AI in sectors across the country, academics have raised concerns about the environmental impact of the growth of this industry.

Last year, University of Waikato’s Dr Amanda Turnbull co-published an article about how New Zealand is outsourcing the “risks and costs” of AI and data centres, highlighting the water and resource consumption of global reliance on data centres and AI. 

Sara spoke with Dr Amanda Turnbull about her concerns relating to AI’s environmental impact and how the New Zealand government should be responding to the ever-expanding industry.

Following the interview with Turnbull, Sara was interested in exploring how businesses are confronting the issue of AI, especially as it becomes more integral to work. Layer3’s Solution Director Daniel Bohan published an article earlier this year scrutinising the confusing data surrounding the water footprint of AI. Sara spoke with Bohan more about how businesses and consumers should engage with AI and better understand the environmental impacts. 
She start by asking about how he engaged with AI in his mahi

An absolutely rammed show today with two fancy new bands and your usual dose of good music, tune in for a bit of a frantic Will pulling together the good bFM vibes for an easy Friday