“..Conjurers call it misdirection – calling attention to what is happening over here so that people don’t notice what is happening over there.
The focus in recent days on whether some forest-owning iwi are getting a sweetheart deal, or whether it is a pragmatic resolution of genuine grievance, has distracted attention from the larger intergenerational injustice inherent in the emissions trading scheme amendments about to be trundled into law.
What those amendments essentially do is give this message to the sectors – mainly agriculture and heavy industry –
- which are responsible for about two-thirds of the country’s carbon emissions but which face competition from competitors that will not face a cost on emissions:
“Go for your life, ramp up your production of milk, or methanol, or cement, or urea or whatever.
The country needs the money you earn.
Don’t worry about the cost of those emissions.
Someone else will pay for almost all of it.”
All else being equal, that is a recipe for higher emissions than would be the case if, as under Labour’s version of the scheme ..
.. they were responsible for the carbon cost of any increase in their emissions above 90 per cent of what they emitted in 2005.
The Government is evasive when asked when it expects New Zealand’s emissions to peak..”
go to source/story>>Brian Fallow : ETS will cost our children – National – NZ Herald News
