{"id":612,"date":"2014-04-02T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/press-release\/nz-govt-energy-policy-fiscal-idiocy-and-atmospheric-self-harm\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:28:47","slug":"nz-govt-energy-policy-fiscal-idiocy-and-atmospheric-self-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/nz-govt-energy-policy-fiscal-idiocy-and-atmospheric-self-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Govt energy policy: fiscal idiocy and atmospheric self-harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div>\n\t<em>As the IPPC report predicts dire consequences for New Zealand, our politicians talk only about \u2018adaptation\u2019 to Climate Change while carving up NZ for more fossil fuel exploration and maintaining an &#8216;all of the above&#8217; approach to energy that even Simon Bridges thinks is just good rhetoric.<\/em><br \/>\nOn Monday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) &#8211; a whole bunch of extremely smart scientists &#8211; released their highly anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar5\/index.shtml\">report<\/a> on climate change impacts. The increased focus on issues for humans, not just the environment, and the havoc a changing climate looks set to wreak, is rightly setting off alarm bells across the globe.<br \/>\n&#8220;Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change,&#8221; IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar5\/index.shtml\">said<\/a>, and Professor Neil Adger of Exeter University similarly doesn\u2019t mince words: &#8220;Climate change is happening, there are big risks for everyone and no place in the world is immune from them.&#8221; Here in NZ that means increased flooding, fires, sea level rise, storms, and biodiversity loss, as well as the effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11229193\">increased conflict<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/WO1403\/S00315\/world-woefully-unprepared-for-climate-impacts-on-food.htm\">increases in food prices<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is not an \u2018oh well, never mind\u2019 situation, yet the best our Climate Change Minister Tim Groser can offer is to<a href=\"http:\/\/beehive.govt.nz\/release\/adaptation-crucial-dealing-climate-issues\"> talk about \u2018Adaptation<\/a>\u2019. When he says this, what does he actually mean? What does he envisage? That we will move cities? Redirect roads? Abandon regions? As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/mar\/31\/ipcc-report-world-lose-habitats-climate-change\">George Monbiot<\/a> points out, it\u2019s a wonder whether Groser knows what he\u2019s talking about at all.<br \/>\nBut perhaps most unbelieveably of all, in the very same week as this unprecedented warning about the risks of failing to take action, our associate Minister for Climate Change, Simon Bridges, is preparing to offer up vast swathes of land and ocean for Oil and Gas exploitation.<br \/>\nToday, Bridges will be announcing the 2014 \u2018Block Offer\u2019 of land and sea areas for further fossil fuel exploitation, at the Advantage NZ Geotechnical Petroleum Forum. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/en\/blog\/bridges-admits-his-all-of-the-above-energy-ap\/blog\/48610\/\">He\u2019s already told us<\/a> that his \u2018all of the above\u2019 approach to energy is nothing but hollow rhetoric, but in the face of the new IPCC report, the government\u2019s project of aggressive fossil fuel expansion is not just economically misguided but criminally irresponsible.<br \/>\nThis is not a case of environment versus economics. The necessary shift away from fossil fuels represents a massive opportunity for renewable energy and a thriving clean economy, as shown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/en\/campaigns\/climate-change\/The-Future-is-Here\/\">Greenpeace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pureadvantage.org\/\">Pure Advantage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalsociety.org.nz\/expert-advice\/information-papers\/yr2014\/greeneconomy\/\">The NZ Royal Society<\/a>, and others. Investing New Zealanders\u2019 money in a wild goose chase after dwindling fossil fuel reserves is fiscally idiotic as well as atmospheric self-harm. Failing to take the opportunities mitigation offers us now will mean immense costs later, in terms of both money and wellbeing.<br \/>\nOther governments around the world are responding to the challenge with renewed vigour and vision. UK Secretary of State Edward Davey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/statement-in-response-to-ipcc-report-on-climate-change\">says:<\/a> \u201cThis evidence strengthens the case for early action in the UK and around the world to lessen the significant risks posed by climate change. We cannot afford to wait.\u201d I find it deeply painful to read our own climate change Minister\u2019s statement that the report is a \u201cuseful contribution\u201d that affirms \u201cadaption\u201d as a response.<br \/>\n\u201cAdaptation\u201d in this context means wilful inaction in the face of an era-defining opportunity. We\u2019re one of the highest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfe.govt.nz\/environmental-reporting\/atmosphere\/greenhouse-gases\/emissions.html#current\">emitters<\/a> in the world on a per capita basis and with current settings that\u2019s only going to increase. We need more than a few individual choices. We need strong and visionary leadership. One of the report&#8217;s lead authors, Macquarie University Professor Lesley Hughes, is clear that the \u2018wait and see\u2019 approach is not going to cut it, reminding us that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11229788\">&#8220;it&#8217;s not all doom and gloom<\/a> if we get a wriggle on and do a lot about it.&#8221; I can\u2019t believe that the best our Ministers can do is remind us of New Zealand\u2019s tiny size and inability to affect global emissions.<br \/>\nWe weren\u2019t always treated to this kind of nihilistic fatalism. Back in 2007, we heard something different. \u201cI have faith that New Zealand can influence the world\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/PA0705\/S00311.htm\">said this politician<\/a>, \u201cand I have faith that New Zealanders can rise to this global economic shift\u2026. I want to reward Kiwi good-mindedness by leading a Government that acts in an economically sound, principled and visionary way to tackle the greatest environmental challenge of our time&#8230; We believe a strong New Zealand voice on climate change is vital to the \u201cbrand\u201d our exporters rely on, and can be a key force for rallying the global troops.\u201d<br \/>\nWho was this crazy lefty? The same man who yesterday flatly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/national\/news\/video.cfm?c_id=1503075&amp;gal_cid=1503075&amp;gallery_id=142066\">told the nation<\/a> that \u201cwe can only do so much and that\u2019s a pretty small amount,\u201d and that our small size is an excuse to continue to do basically nothing. Also known as John Key, our Prime Minister. For shame.<br \/>\nOnce upon a time, Key was \u201chugely hopeful about New Zealand\u2019s ability to maximise the opportunities presented by this global challenge\u201d (2007 again). Now his Ministers are dangling pieces of our country in front of the increasingly desperate fossil fuel industry and ignoring the opportunities that come with decisive climate action. They\u2019re stuck in a dinosaur model of business as usual and it\u2019s not going to cut it.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a chance to change course here for a prosperous and less risky future. But those at the helm are sailing us straight into the storm. \u201cThis is the critical decade,\u201d says the IPCC\u2019s Professor Hughes. Are we willing to believe our leaders when they tell us we\u2019re powerless, and obediently just \u2018wait and see\u2019 what happens?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.facebook.com\/greenpeace.nz\/photos\/a.417987320774.213959.11870725774\/10152352151445775\/?type=1&amp;stream_ref=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to share this image and blog. <\/p>\n<p>That way you&#8217;ll be helping spread the word about the &#8216;action&#8217; our government is taking in face of the havoc a changing climate looks set to wreak.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.facebook.com\/greenpeace.nz\/photos\/a.417987320774.213959.11870725774\/10152352151445775\/?type=1&amp;stream_ref=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/99209_157459.jpg\" alt=\"All of the above\" width=\"589\" 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