Playing OUR PART

All gut … glitters in the sun, and in order to divest it of this it requires to be stained. (W. C. Stewart, The Practical Angler,1857)

I was initially disappointed with the FIRST EMISSIONS REDUCTION PLAN. I had hoped for something which imposed legal measures to curb the environmental destruction caused by short term-focussed economic growth, over the past thirty years in particular. Then I thought again. What ERP actually represents is NZ’s first official recognition that global lifestyle is driving climate change. It then hands local responsibilty for this back to each of us as that’s where the solution lies, demand driving supply.