The Panel with Nicky Pellegrino and Chris Wikaira (Part 1)

Air New Zealand is lauded for its commitment to limit its carbon footprint and yet the airline is one of the country's biggest climate polluters, responsible for emitting 3.5 million tonnes of C02 every year.Shaun Hendy is a physics professor and has voluntarily grounded himself because of his carbon footprint. Climate scientist James Renwick explains just which forms of travel are the greatest and least polluting. In the King Country there's a proposal to change the settlement of Benneydale's name to Mania-Ti, after one of the nearby hills. And in Taranaki some are offended about abbreviating the place name to Naki. Just what is the significance of place names to Maori? And is it ok to change them? Whale hunting goes back in Japanese culture thousands of years however, modern commercial or scientific whaling has been severely condemned by the international community. Japan has resumed its commercial whaling and the attitudes behind it are quite complex and political. Social anthropologist Grant Otsuki says a person can be part of Japan's national culture, and they can be part of the culture of a small village but they are also part of a "modern" global culture. The problem facing everyone living in modern times is which of these cultures are they going to support.