A Communal Kiwi Blush
I’m feeling a bit despondent. I’m sure we used to write positive blogs on the Greenpeace site. In amongst news of rising global emissions and melting icecaps, I’m certain there used to be the occasional cheery reminder that all is not lost.
Not this week. This week I am cursing daily and sporting a permanently furrowed brow. It deepens when I scan the media, and see things like the warning from the Dominion Post’s Political Editor that New Zealand is at high risk of becoming a “climate change hillbilly”.
Things like Herald Economics Correspondent Brian Fallow’s observation that:
“When it comes to New Zealand climate-change policy there are three things you can count on. Unfortunately they are all bad. One is relentless, untrammelled growth in the country ’s greenhouse gas emissions… the second is emitters’ desire to offload the cost of those emissions on to taxpayers. And the third is endless investment uncertainty for business”.
Then today, the best yet. A leading New Zealand carbon trader has spoken out in Carbon News about the embarrassment New Zealand should feel on the world stage, because of our dallying over climate policy.
“We have just fallen off the radar in Europe. They are saying ‘all you do is talk. You’ve been talking since 1992. You are all talk and no action. You maintain that you are so clean and green and try to be leaders and all you do is nothing. You make a decision and then you change your minds. How can we do business with people like that? We can’t take your seriously’.”
John Key heads off to meet her Majesty next week. He’ll also drop in on UK PM Gordon Brown, who’s government is understood to be none-too-pleased with recent climate backtracks in the Antipodes.
When will Key see the gravitas of all this? Soon I hope; my forehead is beginning to hurt…..
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We all should give a damm, before we all sink.
Anyway here,s a couple of interesting sites.
http://www.space.com -our earth - and the space station. *%$#*(
http://www.royalsociety.co.nz -unlocking the ice house -climate statement.
Man going to the moon in the 60,s now left us a hole in the ozone layer.
Vanessa Gibbs
How about this stunner???
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10544816
Definite head-slapping material. Ahh how is McShane still being given the time of day?? Not to mention all the Fed. Farmers stuff that’s gaining significant media coverage of late. I suppose I have long since ceased to be surprised by what the Herald publishes these days…
Bring on the riposte GP!!!
I came over from South Africa 1984-1986 to start up the (Think Big) Gas to Gasoline plant at Motonui, north of New Plymouth, and at that time the National Party was in power. They would not allow the American Nuclear ships in our ports, they would not allow the gold to be mined in the South Island as the method would scar the land. They caught the French who bombed the Rainbow Warrior in quick time. This made me proud of the New Zealand way of life. Now I have immigrated to New Zealand permanently, and MY o MY but how times have changed. We need to get back to those proud times.