The current Labour government is a government that doesn’t know how to govern.

Today on the TV3 morning show we heard the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talking about the wearing of masks for school children.

Jacinda said that we want children to wear masks at school but delegated the implementation of enforcement to the schools.

If they believe there is a need for wearing of masks (and we are constantly being told that they are necessary to help stop the spread of Covid), then the government should come out and declare that they must be worn in all schools.

But what this delegation shows, is that if there is a backlash over wearing of masks at schools the government can say well it’s the schools that imposed the wearing of masks not us.

This delegation by government is a very good way of shifting any bad press away from themselves, putting it onto the schools by saying it was their decision not ours.

This is very important for the government at the present time when they have all the polls showing that their support is melting away at an alarming rate and when they have so many other policies being opposed as well.

But Jacinda and her government need to stand up and govern. Make the hard decisions and be accountable for those decisions rather than trying to hide behind public servants that have been thrown under the bus by their government.

This government is telling the agricultural sector that they are the main cause of the GHG emissions and that they must reduce their levels of emissions to manage NZ’s commitments to the Paris Accord even though as we are an agricultural based economy, this will cause severe hardship and economic catastrophe for our country.

Many farmers will go out of business and the country will suffer a severe economic downturn as a result of their policies around climate change and farming so that they can prance around the international stage loudly proclaiming the moral high ground, when in actual fact the Paris accord article 2 (b) specifically states that food production should not be threatened:

Paris Accord; Article 2 (b) states:

The aim of the agreement is to have a stronger response to the danger of climate change; it seeks to enhance the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through:

(a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change;

(b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production;

(c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.

New Zealand’s total GHG emissions amount to 0.17% of the Global Total and the agricultural sector produces 48% of that total. That amounts to 0.082% of the global total.

The government is stating that agriculture needs to reduce their emissions by 30% so in effect we are looking at a total reduction in global Greenhouse Gases of

So we are going to cripple our country’s economy to save just 0.024% of the world’s total emissions of Greenhouse gases a figure that is slightly less than the amount of gases produced by volcanos around the world every year.

Will we go the same way as Holland has, with massive protest movements and empty shelves in our food markets, rushing blindly into anarchy?

Will other countries thank New Zealand for limiting agricultural production or eliminating agriculture to meet the emission standards that this government wants which in turn will make New Zealand become a much more poorer country?

No! In fact some will rejoice as they will pick up the shortfall in production of agricultural products that New Zealand will no longer be producing.

NZ currently produces and exports food to feed approximately 40 million people and they are acknowledged as the most environmentally sound producers of that food, so we will in fact only make the situation worse by passing that production to countries that have lower environmental standards.

But at least our virtue signalling leaders can prance around the international stage and claim that they are leading the world in GHG reductions (no matter that it is just a case of NIMBYism writ large). We will export the problem to somewhere else and in the process make it worse for the environment.

Fits nicely with the rest of this current Labour government’s failures!

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