Our environmental vandal government

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This makes for depressing reading. The damage that Luxon and his coalition are inflicting on us will take years of work to rectify, and if they get their way in relaxing laws on environmental release of GMOs the damage may well be irreversible.

To get back to your original point though, I don't see too many governments around the world doing what needs to be done, unless they are some of those most threatened by the oncoming disaster. Maybe that is what it takes.

In our case though we have has flooding that clearly shows us what is in our future, in the provinces, and in our biggest city. And yet are they doing anything real?

Are they 'eck...

The problem I think is that politicians, and many voters, are too focussed on short term issues which may effect their bank balances. Once the reality of environmental issues starts impacting on their lives their attention shifts but for issues that have been many decades in the making that is woefully too late.

The really concerning side of this is the effects of that non-action on coming generations. I really do worry about the world our kids and grandkids will be experiencing in their lifetimes and the accusations they will rightly level at the inaction of those generations that preceded them.