1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Finally, we have a serious party who has spent time 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: thinking about it and is now seriously suggesting that New 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Zealand should pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Now, 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: that was what came from that ACT party announcement that 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: I told you would be coming today that you needed 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: to keep an eye out for. ACT says, Paris isn't 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 1: working for New Zealand, says we should push for the 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: agreement to be reformed, and if it isn't reformed, then 9 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 1: we should pull out of it. It isn't working, ACT says, 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: because it's pushing up our food prices, it's pushing up 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: our power prices, it's forcing the farmers off the land 12 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: to make way for trees. And you can add to 13 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: that list something that we've seen a lot of this 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: winter and last winter. It is shutting down industry because 15 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: of those high power prices. Now, there will be a 16 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: lot of people who hear this from ACT and write 17 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: it off as nutty climate change denyer stuff. It is 18 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: not think about the Paris Agreement critically, right, set aside, 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: you know your vibes, whether you want to help the 20 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: climate or just set all of that stuff aside. Just 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: to think about this critically as to whether it works 22 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: or not, and you can see it doesn't work. I mean, 23 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: I stand to be corrected, but I cannot see any 24 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: country that is meeting the targets. We will not meet 25 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: the targets. The US, one of the world's biggest polluters, 26 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,559 Speaker 1: has pulled out. China, the world's biggest polluter, is still 27 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: building cold powered plants. I mean, we are fretting about 28 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: the one coal powered plant that we've got that building 29 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: heaps of them. India, another one of the biggest polluters, 30 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: also doing the same with coal powered plants. In which case, 31 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: why would a country responsible for what was it at 32 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: the last count was zero point one seven percent of 33 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: the world's emissions or something like that. Why would a 34 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: country responsible for such a small amount continue to persist 35 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: with the climate the Paris Climate Agreement. We're not saving 36 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: the planet. We're just making kiwis poorer, and power is 37 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: so expensive that we now have people who cannot turn 38 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: on the heat every time. Huntley burns expensive coal. Coal, 39 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: by the way, which is not expensive, but which we 40 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: have decided to artificially make expensive in order to save 41 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: the planet. Now the NATS have shot this down already 42 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: and say it's not happening. That smart politics for them, 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: because they've got to hold onto the swing voters who 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: might react badly, you know, without thinking things through to 45 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: anything that looks like climate change denial. The NETS might 46 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: want to be careful about what they rule in or 47 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,839 Speaker 1: out hard before the election because they might need flexibility 48 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: after the election. Given both of their coalition partners want 49 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: out of Paris. Act officially wants out unless things change. 50 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: New Zealand First keeps hinting at it, and if National 51 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: is honest with itself, they should want to get out 52 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: of it too, because Paris is making us poorer but 53 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: not doing anything to save the planet. For more from 54 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: Heather Duplicy Allan Drive, listen live to news Talks. 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