Luxon’s “worthies” jab was spot on. It’s a polite way of saying these academics are out-of-touch elites who think they can lecture a nation into submission. They’re not interested in practical solutions like New Zealand’s methane innovations.
Are we in danger of being seen by the US as no longer being an ally?
Watts should do the decent thing and fall on his sword and perhaps the country will cop some sunshine again.
Is fear of being labelled “climate deniers” – to be pilloried by the press and scoffed at by opponents – the real reason New Zealand Parliamentarians are too scared to challenge this ideology?
How refreshing, heartening even, to read this speech from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment of all people. It’s full of commonsense and realism.
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