ETS

Had plenty of reading time lately , "The Worse journey in the world" "Deep Future" and lastly "The Future Eaters" have come and gone, all fantastic books but the The Future Eaters stayed with we and is the sort of book you savor towards the end.

We continue to delay, put off till tomorrow, the ever increasing problems of living on a finite planet and looking back, as this book does, it gives us a clear picture of what the future has in-store for the human race and our planet, the Nat's recent announcement that they will again be watering down our ETS is another blow for the future generations, this legislation was meant to be sending clear signals to everyone that there is a price to be paid for the continued burning of fossil fuels, their excuse this time will be the world wide recession, that you could argue is mostly the result of the price of those very fossil fuels, the planet is sending us the messages, the signs are all around us, we just have to open our eyes.

The problem for this Government is every day the world is starting to see, to quote Lincoln: "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."  The resent move to the left in Germany, Denmark and now France should be a clear sign to the politicians that the time is nearly here for some major world wide changes.

Here in new Zealand we have always prided ourselves on not being afraid to change/adapt, with rolling up our selves and getting on with the job when needed, of doing our bit and a bit more, this is how I would like to think of myself as a New Zealander.

This current government though has done nothing but take soft options from day one, rearranging the chairs for nearly three years now, their announcement they intend watering down our ETS but another example that they are not our leaders at all, just self interested and weak.

From the Worst Journey in the world: "For we are a nation of shopkeepers and no shopkeeper will look at Research which does not promise him a financial return within a year."