Good on Donald Trump. At last a politician with some balls. Pulling out of the Paris Accord Climate Change agreement is just common sense.

Why New Zealand has signed up God only knows – it's pure hypocrisy on our part.

Where do you think most of our coal from the West Coast has been going over the past few years – China that's where.

And have they signed up to climate change, no. They are only warming to the idea now.

We sign up to these climate change/global warming agreements and continue to advertise our country as ‘clean and green'.

Pure hypocrisy if you ask me. Just look at our rivers and lakes, cast your eyes along any road in NZ, what do you see? Pollution, that's what, tonnes of rubbish discarded by non-thinking and lazy Kiwis, and others. Our green rivers, (take a look over any one of the many Waikato River dams). And most of our lakes are a disgrace – you can't swim in them and you certainly can't drink the water without risking ill health. We need to get our own backyard in order before we climb aboard any sort of global agreement.

So get off Donald Trump's back you media vultures, at least he's putting his money where his mouth is.

P Kelly, Te Puna.