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Fix Our Future campaign hits 2,000 submissions

Fix Our Future campaign hits 2,000 submissions

In an impassioned response to the Government’s consultation on New Zealand’s climate change commitments, youth climate change movement Generation Zero’s online submission tool has reeled in over 2,000 submissions in two weeks.


The Fix Our Future website (www.fixourfuture.nz) allows people to make a personalised submission by selecting from six key points written by Generation Zero and adding their own personal comments.


The key points range from the need for an ambitious long-term vision - achieving zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 - to specific policy asks such as a climate law that holds the government accountable for reducing emissions, and an independent Climate Commission.


On Wednesday, Generation Zero released a promotional video featuring Auckland member Lauren Blackwell, which has received over 8,000 views on the group’s Facebook page.


”Right now our leaders are doing their absolute best to ignore [climate change], which means we’re going to be the ones who deal with it,”says Ms Blackwell in the video.


“Moving towards a zero carbon world is totally possible… we just need our politicians to get on with it and start working together to fix our future.”

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Expat engineer Hamish Laing, currently studying in the UK, recorded his own short video to encourage fellow New Zealanders to make a submission.


“We may be a small country but when we speak, people listen. Instead of lagging behind, we need to do what we do best and forge ahead, to create the future we need and a country that we’re proud of,” says Mr Laing.


Submissions are open until 5pm, Wednesday 3 June and Generation Zero encourages “Kiwis of all ages who care about our collective future to use our submission form to tell the Government what they want to see.”


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