{"id":314519,"date":"2026-03-05T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314519\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:04:27","slug":"just-how-self-sufficient-is-new-zealand-in-times-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314519\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how self-sufficient is New Zealand in times of crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Hormuz Strait\u00a0in the Middle East is only letting through a trickle of\u00a0global freight as the war in Iran continues.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will no doubt be impacted by the disruption in shipping, raising questions about New Zealand&#8217;s ability to sustain itself if important products can&#8217;t get through.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Boyd is an independent researcher in global catastrophic risk and one of the brains behind the Aotearoa New Zealand Catastrophe Resilience Project. He joins Emile to explain whether New Zealand can sustain itself\u00a0in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JSCHP1_strait_of_hormuz_avif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Hormuz Strait\u00a0in the Middle East is only letting through a trickle of\u00a0global freight as the war in Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-314519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}