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The climate change bill arrives and the grown-ups don't want to pay
TL;DR: Our planet is now warming and generating extreme climate events faster than our politicians, voters and institutions can agree to reduce the costs and share the burden of those events fairly now and in future.
That was evident in a range of delays, non-responses, finger-pointing fudges and distractions thrown up yesterday by Aotearoa’s politicians, who by default have decided to force today’s costs down onto those who can least afford it, and push tomorrow’s costs onto those who can’t do anything right now to stop it. See those examples below.
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