Today on our own publicly owned media – we had to be shamed again by the Australians about our "lacklustre efforts to tackle climate change.

Australia is making ‘climate change’ a principal part of their election campaign in 10 days’ time.

UK has already enshrined in their law that climate change is an emergency crisis – said Peter Garret (of midnight oil fame) on TV one while interviewed by John Campbell breakfast show today.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2019/05/10/climate-change-action.html?auto=6034880021001

All this while we in NZ is slipping beneath the waves.

EXAMPLE;
We had always taken our family to a camping/diving spot at a Gisborne beach since 2005, but now since then every year that beach had been eroded another meter after the sea had claimed it.

Now the beach area has become just a narrow strip of sand and little else, where before 2005 there was always room to turn around with a caravan in tow, and we could even fence a safe grassed area for children to play in.

We have seen the loss of some of the best camping and driving areas along our beaches now sadly and even coastal roads are being eroded and partly collapsing into the sea, and this spells the seriousness of climate change causing sea level rise is having on our environment so we need to make this example to the NZ govt to 'declare a climate emergency'.

We must at least follow the UK example to 'declare a climate emergency'.

Government please be guided by your actions to do the right thing and to protect our collective “wellbeing”.

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