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The Greens need to get real to save the world

The reduction of carbon emissions in New Zealand is counter-productive if it increases them elsewhere.

Michael Naylor
 Fri, 19 Oct 2018

Greens co-leader James Shaw has suggested a need for fuel efficiency regulations, based on the idea that as many older cars have poor efficiency, banning the worst would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

While this is true, regulations would do little to save the world. Like most Green policies,

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 Fri, 19 Oct 2018
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