When I got to page 7 in this morning’s Dominion-Post I wasn’t sure at first that my eyes weren’t deceiving me. I read it again, and even then wondered if what I was reading was a typo. But these people seemed to be deadly serious.
Their demand is there in bold: that the government take steps to reduce (net) greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025. Their demand doesn’t appear to be conditional on other countries doing anything. It is simply flagellation – but not self-flagellation (in which these individuals themselves commit to reducing all direct and indirect emissions associated with their own consumption and production to zero by 2025) but a brutal whipping delivered to everyone. Not even our government, evincing no concern for productivity or for lifting the performance of the underperforming New Zealand economy, would be that stupid or (electorally) suicidal. (In fact, that left…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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