But James and Jacinda – Greta is RIGHT – your climate emergency declaration is a meaningless virtue signal
BURN!
James Shaw responds after Greta Thunberg calls out NZ over lack of climate change action
Greta Thunberg has taken aim at New Zealand for what she saw as the Government’s lack of action on climate change.
In early December, Parliament officially declared a climate emergency in New Zealand – a move Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called an “acknowledgment of the next generation”.
It was a “declaration based on science”, Ardern told MPs on December 2.
But the response has irked environmental activist Thunberg, with the 17-year-old commenting in an opinion piece that described the declaration as virtue signalling with little substance.
As I have been pointing out from the beginning, this climate emergency declaration was always meaningless virtue signalling because it didn’t actually trigger any emergency powers.
Labour and the Greens rushed it through while they were under criticism from the Left that after winning an MMP majority they were just passing tepid incremental bullshit.
To counter that accusation, Labour and the Greens passed more tepid incremental bullshit.
Getting called out by Greta should outrage Green voters and Labour environmentalists because this Government is doing nothing meaningful while the planet melts.
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Greta your best. Jacinda you must do something about cow poo poos, pollution from increased traffic in New Zealand and emissions from increased house building in New Zealand. Hi Greta!
They’ve decided to be National-lite, so of course nothing is what they do best.
Time for dramatic parliamentary reforms that make selling out less desirable.
Ah, but Labour is promoting economic growth (and therefore emissions growth), and population growth (and therefore emissions growth), and continuing (maybe even increasing) dependence on highly-inefficient road transport, and increased use of concrete (and therefore emissions growth etc., so they can’t be accused of doing nothing. Just of doing all the wrong things. 🙁