{"id":35130,"date":"2021-08-13T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/13\/by-setting-a-positive-example-new-zealand-can-contribute-to-the-climate-struggle"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:20:16","slug":"new-zealands-biggest-contribution-to-the-climate-struggle-is-its-positive-example-philip-mckibbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35130","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s biggest contribution to the climate struggle is its positive example | Philip McKibbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suggesting that cutting New Zealand\u2019s emissions won\u2019t make any difference on a global scale is an argument that misses the point<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Should New Zealand hold itself to its greenhouse gas emissions targets?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course!\u201d you may be thinking \u2013 and you wouldn\u2019t be the only one. There is widespread support for climate action in Aotearoa. It led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/sep\/27\/nothing-else-matters-school-climate-strikes-sweep-new-zealand\">record demonstrations in 2019, which saw 170,000 people striking<\/a>, and the government is currently working on a plan in response to a recent report from the Climate Change Commission. Still, some New Zealanders seem to think otherwise, arguing that we are already doing enough.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/13\/by-setting-a-positive-example-new-zealand-can-contribute-to-the-climate-struggle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suggesting that cutting New Zealand\u2019s emissions won\u2019t make any difference on a global scale is an argument that misses the pointShould New Zealand hold itself to its greenhouse gas emissions targets?\u201cOf course!\u201d you may be thinking \u2013 and you wouldn\u2019t b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,326,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130\/revisions\/35131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}