Leaving Paris Agreement would be a dumb move – PM
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change would be “a really dumb move”.
OPINION: This old mutt is loath to sound like Groundswell has been topping up his bowl with brisket off-cuts, but the ginger group makes a good point about the arguments raised in favour of toeing the Paris Agreement line.
From the Government through to the levyfunded lobby groups, they all calmly claim we will be penalised in the market if we drop Paris. Little or no effort is made to verify this claim. “Instead, they prey on fear.”
And with their myopic focus on emissions, they never reconcile the fact we are losing hundreds of thousands of hectares of food producing land to pines because of the Paris Agreement.
As the ginger group says, it’s not about giving Paris the middle finger and doing nothing, it’s about highlighting to other signatories the significant flaws and unsustainable cost implications of being bound to Paris.
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