Posted on 12/02/2020 4:25:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - - Joining more than 30 countries, New Zealand on Wednesday took the symbolic step of declaring a climate emergency.
Lawmakers voted 76-43 in favor of the motion, in a split that followed party lines.
The government also launched a new initiative requiring many public agencies to become carbon neutral by 2025, in part by getting rid of coal boilers and buying electric cars.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government usually declares emergencies only for things like natural disasters, but that if it doesn’t address climate change, such disasters will continue to happen.
She said the declaration was an acknowledgment of the burden the next generation faces.
“For them, it is instinctual, it is tangible, it is real,” Ardern said.
The declaration states that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and promises a commitment to minimize global warming. It says climate change will have a devastating impact on New Zealand through flooding, wildfires, sea-level rise and water availability.
Ardern said climate change was an important consideration in rebuilding the economy from the downturn caused by the coronavirus, and it was important to “build it back in a sustainable way, with a focus on carbon neutrality.”
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What in the name of Sam Hill has happened to New Zealanders????
Given that New Zealand is comprised of basically two islands, guess that place will be tipping over and sinking into the sea pretty soon.
They’d better haul a** over to Australia, eh, mate?
“getting rid of coal boilers and buying electric cars.”
Yeah, unless they got nuclear or hydro, that’s not going to go well.
I thought that was him but I looked it up to be sure:
Joseph Goebbels.
>but that if it doesn’t address climate change, such disasters will continue to happen.
They have and will anyway.
NZ’s worst disasters are epidemics and earthquakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_in_New_Zealand
this is what this covid/lockdown/mask crap has been about the entire time. declare an ‘emergency’ and take away rights while most sheeple comply, while the courts and legislatures are either complicit in it and unable and/or unwilling to out a stop to these tyrant-governors.
so....climate change will be declared a ‘health-emergency’, then your electricity will be rationed, gasoline will triple in price with new taxes....etc....
etc, etc, etc.....
3rd-world hellhole here we come!
Why doesn’t the government pass a resolution to demand huge polluters China and India go “carbon neutral?”
How has the pandemic effected sheep ranching?!
"Not a climate emergency"
(...sunshine...)
New Zealand should just become part of the People’s Republic of China.
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