After 9 years in power Helen Clark's Labour Party has just lost a general election to the conservative Nationalist Party. One of the policies of the Nationalists was to slow down the cuts to carbon emissions, whereas Clark wanted to make the country "carbon neutral" by 2012. You can read more about the background to the election here,and the result itself here.
Both New Zealand and Canada have voted against parties who have pledged rapid and costly carbon reduction policies. I hope this fact has not gone entirely un-noticed in other western democracies.
And the US is swimming up stream. Or, at least it seems so with "O's" GW comments.
ReplyDeleteThat's democracy - you only get to choose from the candidates that put up.
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