Five years, is that all we’ve got?

A visiting Australian expert sees new signs of hope on global warming. But he warns that New Zealand and its farmers need to wake up to a quickly changing world.

By Ruth Laugesen In Commentary

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9th October, 2010

Climate change

Australian climate change crusader Tim Flannery is a big, hearty, warm man. But he turns frosty on the podium as he examines New Zealand's fond illusions about itself. "I look at New Zealand and see your advertising about what you think your country's about. I hear the clean and green message all the time: 100% Pure New Zealand. "When I look around, that's not what I see here. I see rivers nutrifying, full of waste. People paying good money for fertiliser and then chucking it in the local creek. Economic madness, environmental vandalism - that's what it is. "And that ...

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