{"id":53148,"date":"2023-03-06T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/06\/we-cant-afford-to-choose-adaptation-over-cutting-emissions-suggesting-otherwise-is-dangerous"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T00:43:22","slug":"we-cant-afford-to-choose-adaptation-over-cutting-emissions-suggesting-otherwise-is-dangerous-james-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53148","title":{"rendered":"We can\u2019t afford to choose adaptation over cutting emissions \u2013 suggesting otherwise is dangerous | James Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what some New Zealand right-wingers are arguing, adaptation will not help us in a world three degrees warmer<\/p>\n<p>I cannot say how the world will look for our kids, but what I do know is that it will reflect the decisions we take today. The past two years we\u2019ve witnessed a seemingly never-ending cascade of climate-turbocharged disasters. Canterbury, the West Coast, Nelson-Tasman, Tair\u0101whiti, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/auckland-floods-biggest-climate-event-new-zealand-history-flooding\">Auckland<\/a>, Waikato, and Northland. Aotearoa New Zealand knows clearer than ever the immediacy of the climate crisis. We simply cannot rest. Far from it: despite huge progress, we are still nowhere near where we need to be.<\/p>\n<p>A slew of opportunistic right-wing voices is lining up to use recent disasters to argue that the government should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/matthew-hooton-its-too-late-to-avoid-climate-change-now-we-have-to-adapt\/LMBGHC5XUZEWBP4T2OM6UE4DI4\/\">shift its efforts away from cutting emissions towards adaptation<\/a>. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2014\/apr\/22\/preventing-global-warming-cheaper-than-adapting\">as unscientific as it is dangerous<\/a>. It is also utterly out of touch with the needs of the people they purport to represent. It is a disingenuous, harmful and bad faith argument that distracts from the conversations we need to be having.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/06\/we-cant-afford-to-choose-adaptation-over-cutting-emissions-suggesting-otherwise-is-dangerous\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what some New Zealand right-wingers are arguing, adaptation will not help us in a world three degrees warmerI cannot say how the world will look for our kids, but what I do know is that it will reflect the decisions we take today. The past two &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1237,"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":[41,2852,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-environment","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\/53148","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\/1237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53149,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53148\/revisions\/53149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}