Has the Ardern government just shot itself in the foot?
Despite its poll ratings slipping in recent months, it nourished hopes of returning to power next year. But its “world-first” policy to cut greenhouse gases with farm-level pricing, effectively making 20% of NZ’s sheep and beef farms uneconomic, could result in it bleeding votes in most of the regional electorates it won in 2020.
The unpalatable truth is just dawning on the country: cutting agricultural emissions means cutting food and fibre output. And that means slashing the export income on which NZ depends.
Clearly the Cabinet ministers adopting the policy announced yesterday believed they could “sell” it on the basis that NZ would be leading the world, in cutting agricultural emissions.
In the event, they have been met with shrieks of outrage from farm lobby groups.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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