OPINION
J M White
There is no New Zealand left for anyone to aspire to. Most NZ citizens couldn’t even tell you now what a New Zealander is since the very definition of the nation was destroyed by replacing identity with ideology.
Once a government starts distributing national resources to groups and foreign countries, everyone on both sides of the ideological divide realises that there is no more national interest and little point in working toward anything but gaining a maximum economic distribution to their own identity groups.
We watched as New Zealand mobilised very large sums of money during Covid-19 for big businesses, while ordinary people did not benefit. We saw quite clearly how readily businesses will help themselves to profits while passing on losses to society – and now we have to watch the slow crashing of the country as politicians use our taxes to import refugees, send money to Israel or Ukraine, bail out failed corporations and, in particular, to invest in climate change.
Tell us the facts, James Shaw, about the Nationally Determined Contribution Pledge you and Dear Leader Ardern made under the Paris Agreement, to send $34 thousand million dollars – yes, that is thirty-four thousands of millions – out of New Zealand each year for the next ten years.
New Zealand’s first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC1) was updated on 31 October 2021 when we were all locked up and, instead of the ridiculous 30% (the previously promised reduction), someone set the new NDC target to an even more ridiculous 50 per cent reduction – by 2030 – of net emissions below our gross 2005 total. This NDC1 target is economy-wide, covering all sectors and all greenhouse gases. What utter insanity is this?
Our gross greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors for 2022 totalled 82M tonnes more or less, depending on who does the sums when we were still locked up! Are we going to halve that? And still, keep bringing in thousands of immigrants each year? We can’t de-industrialise because we would no longer have any industry. Do we have to destroy our agricultural sector and eat food made in a petri dish? Worse still, is our money going to gold-plated Saudi Arabia to help them reduce their emissions which have nearly doubled since 2005 to 810M tonnes in 2022? Tell us somebody, anybody – where is our money going? Tell us that’s why we can’t afford a functioning health system, good roads, a world class education for our children, a house, food – or, well – anything – because the environment comes first.
Tell us what sort of life is permissible in a world where we are under attack for eating and breathing out?
All ideologies are meant to mentally debilitate people. That includes the climate change ideology. Question it at your peril. Its convoluted language and statistics are difficult to understand because they are meant to be, to scare off enquiring minds.
The facts are that trees only temporarily sequester carbon because they eventually die off and release it all again. If trees were to die after twenty-six years, those planted today would wreak havoc on our 2050 net zero goals.
EVs simply will not work in the sorts of weather conditions that climate change makes more likely and CO2 – typically thought of as nothing more than a harmful waste product of breathing – is a driver of mitochondrial energy production and improves the delivery of oxygen into your cells. CO2 also combats cancer development by lowering the pH of the cell. All plants – including GRASS – breathe in CO2. They can’t grow without it.
The thousands of immigrants arriving here want a house and a car and food – and they get old and sick too. What earthly sense does it make to pursue ZERO carbon emissions while growing the population? Zero carbon means a Mars landscape.
We are now living the impoverished lives these people have made for us – and this is just the beginning because we haven’t even started to make those pie-in-the-sky payments yet.
PM Luxon and Nicola Willis should stand up and state that NZ cannot afford to make this generous NDC gesture after all because we the taxpayers don’t like the look of the looming fiscal hole and we the people of New Zealand don’t want to be the emissions reductions leaders of the world any more.