National admit their climate denial will cost us billions in Paris Penalties
Government not ‘sending billions overseas’ if climate target not met, Finance Minister says
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed the Government has no intention to spend on overseas carbon offsets, if New Zealand fails to reduce emissions to the level agreed under the Paris Agreement.
This Government has waged a war on the environment for two years with corrupt Fast Track Laws, content erosion of climate change funding and obliteration of programs to reduce our climate change emissions.
Now the reality of all that corruption is born out by Nicola Willis admitting we aren’t going to bother paying the Paris Agreement penalties for blowing all our promises.
This is going to lead to massive legal challenges…
Government needs to get carbon credit story straight, faces trade risks – climate lawyer
Cabinet ministers need to get their story straight about whether New Zealand will buy offshore credits to meet its Paris Agreement promises, a climate lawyer says.
Lawyers for Climate Action executive director Jessica Palairet said appearing to back away from climate commitments could also have real-world trade and legal risks for the country.
…even Treasury have had to admit Nicola’s climate denial will hurt us…
Treasury U-turns on emissions offsets after Minister says no to sending money offshore
Treasury secretary Iain Rennie has confirmed his department will quantify the costs that New Zealand may have to pay to meet the Paris climate change agreement.
This comes after Finance Minister Nicola Willis said on Tuesday that the Government has no plans to pay for offshore carbon credits and she did not think Treasury needed to report the potential liability.
Under the Paris Agreement, New Zealand has promised to reduce net greenhouse emissions by 51-55% compared to 2005 levels by 2035.
To achieve this, we either need to cut that 51-55%, or we will have to purchase carbon credits offshore. In essence, paying others to cut their emissions.
In 2023 Treasury and the Ministry for the Environment calculated that the cost of purchasing offshore mitigation could range anywhere from $3 billion to $24 billion.
…we deserve everything coming our way!
This Government have constantly said ‘trust us we have a climate change plan’ while they destroyed every climate change plan and now they’ve burnt them all, the Government just shrugs and says, ‘we aren’t going to pay the penalties now’ as they refuse to adopt any ideas…
Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission’s emissions target recommendations
The government has rejected all of the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations to strengthen New Zealand’s emissions targets.
…which is leading us to an existential crisis…
Govt warned new methane target aligned with ‘catastrophic’ warming
Newly released documents reveal the Government’s new methane target is associated with 2.7ºC of warming – which climate scientists say represents ‘unprecedented peril’
…If you are not incandescent with rage, you aren’t paying fucking attention!
Since gaining power this Climate denying Government has done everything in its power to disrupt, destroy and obliterate all our environmental protections, Russel Norman over at Greenpeace has detailed every anti-environment legislation this Government have done over the last 2 years and it is jaw dropping…
Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline
When the Luxon-led coalition took office nearly two years ago, its war on nature started within days of taking office. In that time, the government has made a bewildering number of changes leading to environmental harm. Greenpeace Aotearoa Executive Director Russel Norman has undertaken the gargantuan task of tracking them all.
…National, ACT and NZF are captured by the big polluters and while the nation burns from climate change extreme weather events, you ZB Trolls and Redneck Crackers be jumping for joy because you hate Jacinda, trans and vaccines so much.
You are siding with the big polluters, with the intensive dairy farmers, with the Banks, with Big Oil because you despise admitting you were wrong on climate change and are so driven by social media hate algorithms you can’t acknowledge it.
Your petty bigotries won’t save you as the planet burns.
This is a climate denial Government and the sooner the rest of us turn on them and their redneck supporters, the sooner we can start preparing for the adaptation that is going to be required if we are to have any chance of surviving what is coming.
They are using culture war talking points to distract you from the furnace that is upon us.
A new level of militant environmental activism is coming.
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These nincompoops, Luxon and Willis, are so dumb that they can’t see that if we ALL don’t adhere to Climate changes we will be doomed along with our offspring. Do they seriously think there is going to be anywhere to hide that will be any safer? Do we have to bang their heads against a brick wall to get it through to them? Along with the shocking waste of money, resources, and very possible trade risks, they just continue down the dumb ‘same old roads’ of mining, pollution of our waterways and pasture etc. Why have we allowed this to happen? We are the voters; we should be in control; so why aren’t we? I know – money, power, control, denial, lies, corruption……… We need a huge “wake-up” call. It’s coming.
Our governments gave up thinking for the good of the country and for the environment when they got rid of David Lange. He was too fat and seemed a self-indulgent fool and what was needed were lean, hungry, men and women with nous and not filled with spongey good feelings, wishes and ideas.
And you had to make strong business connections – UK had let us down after having given us good Commonwealth status and recognising our role in helping food supply after WW2. Export was king, and the environment would be fine, we needed it for our farms etc. We were in the modern age and had to advance not go back to fallow fields and potato famine times as for the Irish and others. Science would be our stalwart earner.
We could blame our lack of ability (willingness) to act in better environmental ways, on those toffy-nosed, inbred, self-centred lords ladies, sirs and viscounts etc in the UK that at our start chased many of our people out after the Scottish Clearances, and the Enclosure Acts and loss of common ground, and UK now is going through a different reversal of democracy.
Going for broke in many ways, as they used to in Regency days when they gambled away inheritances, sometimes obtained by marrying rich heiresses whose fortune they would try to gain control of. We follow this trend willingly – as long as the social levels remain secure, rich people at the top, and poor people in hovels at the bottom and mushrooms in between, all is open for business
and whose job is it to care about the environment? Not the rich. they support the economy, not the nation, the actual country.
That’s Not My Job –
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
Burn baby burn is the new national party election slogan
You might be doomed dahling but we’re all perfectly safe in Remmers and Kundahlah. You poor people may suffer but that’s perfectly acceptable if we’re continuing our blessed lifestyle.
Labour aren’t winning West Coast Tasman ever again, not with corrupt mine and farmer money floating about so, get with the no Stockton and mineral sands program now and the locals will have forgot all about it by the election and gone back to shagging each other for a hit on the pipe.
Oh, and to the twats who sit in the coal bucket and force collaborators to freight coal trucks past my house day and night after suffering 8 straight months of that very torture, if you’re gonna do it, do it right – two in the bucket and the rest of yourselves down to the corner of Stafford And Queen in Kawatiri and earn your police slap on the wrist. Or block the Buller bridge – Your choice.
National. Been kicking the economic can down the road since, well, forever.