The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 18th January 2016

1. An interesting read from Al Jazeera, re China’s economic position, in comparison to that of other Asian and some Latin American nations. Seems its evolution from a mainly manufacturing base to that of a strong consumer society now, could cause some problems.

   http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/china-economic-crisis-coming-160111090000623.html?

2. 19th January 2016.

   According to this Radio NZ report;

   http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201783302/gov's-emissions-projections-far-exceed-paris-commitment

   The National lead Government is now buying cheap carbon credits from failed economies like Ukraine to avoid taking proper environmental policies to reduce their promised emission targets they committed to in December 2015 at the historic Paris Climate change accord just last month.

   Transport emissions are amongst the largest emitters according to a recent report from Ministry of Environment, and here we see national preparing to keep closing down regional rail services while growing truck freight emissions dramatically instead.

   So to honour those commitments made in Paris, the North Island East coast rail should be connected to all major ports, and this requires that a forward rail upgrading planning is now required and that a reopening of existing regional rail commence.

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