Who Doesn’t Love New Zealand?
New Zealand is the fifth most admired country on Earth (the list goes: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands). It’s hard not to love a nation that seems to do everything right when it comes to taking care of its people and the planet as a whole.
Following the mass shooting earlier in the year New Zealand banned AR-15s almost immediately. No corrupt relationships with the NRA, no debate on a completely noncontroversial subject, no specious logic about who or what kills, just swift and decisive action.
Now we see that their zero carbon legislation has passed with virtually no push-back.
Perhaps the U.S. could learn something from this: respect follows an honest commitment to humanity’s well-being. It’s an instinct with which we were all born; it’s not something we can only learn from a Buddha or a Socrates or a Jesus Christ.
Craig,
Fifth most admired? By who? Who on earth complies these strange lists?
“New Zealand banned AR-15s”, not very difficult since legal ownership of such weapons has been virtually impossible for several decades.
The same could be said for NZ’s “Carbon Neutral By 2050” policy.
Nz is a nation with virtually no heavy industry, small population and abundant hydro and Geo-thermal power sources.
The nation’s rich volcanic soil and massive forest resources make achieving a carbon neutral position very easy.
Again, it’s a case of importing all the “dirty’ industrial goods from Korea, Japan, China or India while boasting of how green you keep your little patch.
This is like saying, ” We here in Rhode Island are really zero emission, but we buy all or power from New Jersey !