Once again Nicola Patrick has used her position as an opinion writer for the Wanganui Chronicle to criticise fellow Horizons regional councillors when they do not enjoy the same generous space to reply.
She again harps on about reducing eating meat, eliminating oil and gas exploration and planting trees as the means of saving the planet, but not a single mention as to the key destroyers of our atmosphere — ever populating, polluting humans. Dirty coal also gets a let-off.
First, meat producing animals have been on Earth in their multi-millions long before man started multiplying. Their methane gas emissions last at most around a dozen years in the atmosphere, while fossil fuel emissions last up to hundreds of years. Choose sleeping in a closed shed with farting cows or a car running. The lentils Nicola has replaced meat with will unlikely be grown in NZ, either.
There are over 110,000 commercial aeroplane flights carrying 9 million passengers per day, before we even start to add up cargo transportation squirting deadly gases directly into the atmosphere. Seven per cent growth per annum — requiring an extra 600,000 pilots, we are told — in the next year or so.
Once the use of gas is eliminated, what will heat homes and cook meals? Barely enough electricity now, but no details given. Electric cars will leave god-forsaken mountains of waste batteries that have a limited lifespan up to 12 years and are unable to be recycled.
The Greens' great tree-planting plans will cause more problems, unless we see some sound management plans in place. Look at the shambles we have witnessed of late with flooding made worse by forestry waste.
