Our PM's Harvard speech

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To some extent that's true, but it has always been & likely always will that generally, National has been more concerned with businesses while Labour has been more concerned with working people - though both have moved towards the centre in recent decades.

Perhaps you forget that it was Labour which first foisted Neo Liberalism on us; that is by no means in any way left politically.

What's needed is a massive move away from that harmful greed based nonsense, given the damage its inflicted wherever it has been embraced. That won't happen if ACT ever gains  enough votes to have any say since they're only interested in those ideas.  In fact what's needed is a move well away from extreme right ideas.

Like it or not, the Greens  are concerned with the welfare of the planet which none of the others appear to be to any great extent, & that is something which affects every one of us & which will in future affect our children & their children.

Greens just want to save the planet at any cost, ironically hydro Dams damage ecosystems too and we are running out of capacity.
What upsets me the most is all this ridiculous carbon trading nonsense. Valuable farmland being sold to chinese or other foreign investors to simply plant permanent pine forest that never gets cut down is stupid. Why not plant in Native? Long term thats better than pines that grow fast and spread like weeds.
Any permanent re-forestation efforts should be native bush only, and only in areas not suitable or profitable for farming.
Why can overseas investors profit from carbon "farming" here in NZ, but we cant claim carbon credits from carbon "farming" overseas in places such as south america where there are re-forestation projects happening around the amazon? That should be more important, and thats what ACT promotes.
I also learned that much of the south islands native forest is not even counted towards our carbon capacity!

On the subject of native and exotics, it does appear that government are leaning more towards requiring native plantings.  those invested in the pine carbon farming are probably rightly upset about the policy reversal and now suggesting court action apparently...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/clim...t-in-court