Luxon on Maureen Pugh

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When it comes to this election climate change is well down the list of what people will consider when voting - it isn't even in the top 5.

Climate change is a big decision on who I vote for this election.
Its not even about denial, but rather how we deal with it.
NZ cant do anything to stop or slow it down, at best we can hold it back about a month if we stopped burning petrol overnight.
I will vote on a party that focuses on mitigation, such as stop banks, sea walls, flood protection, drainage rather than one that wants to get rid of farmers or petrolheads.

That would seem to be a real 'ambulance at the bottom of the cliff' approach. In the long run changing the way we farm, live and transport ourselves would seem to me to be much cheaper option than installing monsoon drain style stormwater reticulation and building ever stronger and higher seawalls to deal with the repercussions of our actions. The upcoming retreat from flood prone areas is going to cost a bomb which of course will fall at the feet of taxpayers so why not just stop burning stuff?