Guest essay by Eric Worrall
While nobody expects the elimination of New Zealand’s carbon footprint to have a significant direct impact on global warming, the rest of the world will surely be inspired by New Zealand’s moral example.
New Zealand declares a climate change emergency
Phil Taylor in Auckland
Wed 2 Dec 2020 13.42 AEDTJacinda Ardern calls climate change ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’ and pledges carbon-neutral government by 2025
New Zealand has declared a climate change emergency and committed to a carbon-neutral government by 2025, in what the prime minister Jacinda Ardern called “one of the greatest challenges of our time”.
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Speaking in parliament after its introduction, Ardern said the country must “act with urgency”.Climate emergency: New Zealand must match words and actionsRead more
“This declaration is an acknowledgement of the next generation. An acknowledgement of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and do not take action now,” she said.
“It is up to us to make sure we demonstrate a plan for action, and a reason for hope.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/02/new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency
New Zealand does not manufacture much, decades of radical environmentalism have taken a toll. So despite New Zealand’s pledge to be carbon neutral by 2025, they will be importing lots of carbon tainted manufactured goods for the foreseeable future.
I laugh in their general direction. Welcome to living in the 18th century again…
Tokenism.
More calorie-free virtue signalling. When they give up the importation of all manufactured goods from non-zero emission countries, I’ll be impressed.
She looks like a Racist White Colonial to me. Anyone else see it?
Andrew
What a bunch of delusional nonsense. What next? Make cancer illegal? order volcanoes to knock it off? I don’t laugh in their general direction, I pass gas in their general direction, which both I am good at and is more appropriate.
And another micro degree C bites the dust
They filmed Lord of the Rings there. Maybe they decide to live in the same technological era as the books,
Wow. Any chance instead of a life sentence for treason they can just send the Big Tech and Deep State traitors to New Zealand to give that country what it deserves? There are two islands. One for those that are right and want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the other for the Leftists.
Couldn’t the AOC alike PM have waited to after Christmas?
German National TV is also spoiling Christmas as in this video I made English subtitle to a few hours ago:
cv19-german-state-tv-propaganda
Was in Auckland a few years ago. The harbour tour guide mentioned the cantilevered additions to the harbour bridge. Made in Japan. Because New Zealand has no smore a steelproducing capacity worth mentioning. It will be interesting when the navy of imperialistic China will come knocking on the door intending to take over the country.
Next thing she will be ordering earthquakes to stop, caused no doubt by carbon dioxide emissions..
Good luck with that idea.
Doesn’t NZ export a lot of lamb?
How do they feed them?
How do they transport the meat around the world?
Who/what transports the all blacks rugby team??
Let me know when they ban tourism, tourism advertising, tour boats, cruise ships, rental cars, fishing boats, and long distance airlines.
Hell give them what they want.
Ban all exports,to NZ,of any carbon based products,materials made from oil and fossil fuelled production lines.
Stop the Oil Tankers supplying their transport needs.
And of course,since agriculture is the number one user of CO2 we cannot accept any imports of food from NZ,as all those products shamelessly(And very necessarily) consume CO2..
I surrender,give the virtue poseurs what they demand.
I am sure Jacinda will immediately stop using those refrigerated Ships and ban all sea going freight as the “Carbon Emissions” are too much to bear.
Forward.To the Glorious Future.
Now I wonder,did NZ’s last election use the wonders of computer sythesized voting?
Or did the cities of Auckland and Wellington just do their normal thing?
Is this the Wednesday emergency or the Thursday one?
There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.
Guterres triples down with the climate stupidity and madness:
“The state of the planet is broken,” Guterres said in a speech at Columbia University. “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal.”
We truly are doomed if we can’t stop the worldwide Climate Madness.
Wikipedia reports that in 2017 New Zealand accounted for 0.10% of the world’s CO2 emmisions. Just one tenth of one pecent.
Must why they are cutting down all their trees.
Some 40 to 50m years ago I considered that New Zealanders were quite sensible and inventive. I remember them asking for a proposal on how to use some of the extremely low ash coal in the Buller field to produce Soderberg electrodes for aluminium production. We didn’t get the job. I have now heard that there are a lot of sheep in New Zealand. With that sort of population I am not surprised at the new climate policy which when conflated with Covid-19 will have a tremendous effect for many. What a noble approach and by a PM who should she ever lose her job could immediately find one advertising toothpaste.
A smokescreen to ignore the newly re-elected governments failure to address:
– a housing crises with New Zealand having some of the highest prices for houses in the world (in relation to income). This flows on into rents.
– a child poverty crises with about 1/3rd of children not having access to things like shoes and vegetables;
– an education crises with a large % of children leaving school unable to read enough to understand a dole form and too innumerate to be able to budget;
– an environmental crises with feral animals such as possums and stoats plundering the NZ bush and Kauri die back disease destroying the iconic trees.
I could go on and on but you get the picture.
The steady March to Totalitarianism across Western democracies continue.
More conditioning a free people to gradually accept more and more control of their personal lives and loss of liberty in the name of “safety.” At least for a viral epidemic, people can see an end to these declarations. But with a scam “climate emergency”, when would that end? 2050? 2100? Probably never. Relinquishing the political power it gives these pretty faced despots will only when they find themselves kneeling at the guillotine. And the Kiwis have just given up their one means to affect that.
Dementia Joe is going to come under these same pressures here in the US from his radical Leftists to impose a similar “Climate Emergency” declaration once he takes office. And if he doesn’t do it, then Kammie the Commie will when she does the #25A coup on her senile boss.
““There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
– 1984 by George Orwell.
The Dunning-Kruger is strong in this one.
She is claiming that the GOVERNMENT will be carbon neutral by 2025. People please learn to read and comprehend.
Yet more piss and wind from old horse face. She will have to close the Beehive.
Until Jacinta orders the culling of New Zealand’s entire herd of cows , sheep and pigs ( especially the cows) she is not being fair dinkum about this zero carbon commitment.
Otter: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!
Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.