One of P.M John Key's ‘reasons' for imposing the ET scam upon the NZ public was that if we don't show some effort in reducing so-called global warming CO2, then we may lose out on some of our overseas export trade.
We have an FTA with China which has no intention of curbing its CO2 emissions, is not a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, and is in fact building some 20 new coal-fired power generation stations per year. And yet 75% of the designed obsolescence crap offered for sale in NZ is manufactured in and exported from, China.
This makes John Keys ‘reasoning' spurious!
If NZ can continue to manufacture or produce high quality goods for export then our supposed air pollution, our immigration policies, our human rights failings, even the Treaty of Waitangi will have absolutely no effect on the acceptance of our exports overseas.
Rolls-Royce never advertises, yet their cars and aeroplane engines are in high demand world wide – because they are of such high quality!
R. Jordan, Tauranga.