Resources Minister in New Zealand First move to curb sinister moralising in Australasia

New Zealand’s adherence to the Paris Accords has intensified to the point at which a member of its governing coalition is forced to introduce an Act of Parliament to stop the nation’s trading banks de-banking clients connected to industries such oil and gas and even agri-businesses deemed to be less than zealous.

The background to the Act sponsored by governing coalition member New Zealand First is the nation’s slavish devotion to the Accords when the nation counting its geothermal activity and with the exception of Iceland already leads the world in renewables.

The conventional wisdom in New Zealand is that the farm-products exporting nation has to stay in lockstep with the Paris Accords in order to preserve its trade with the EU.

In the event the EU needs New Zealand more than New Zealand needs the EU.

New Zealand’s imports from the EU are consistently higher than its exports to the trading bloc.

The governing coalition’s resources minister Shane Jones (pictured) is unique in Australasia’s cabinet-level politics in confronting the unreserved devotion accorded the Accords embedded notably in Australasia’s upscale suburbs.

The fervour has become manifestly destructive as the nation’s productive food pastures are still being taken out of food production in the drive to achieve offsets and other abstract trading instruments for which there remains a declining global demand.

The fervour surrounding foreign solar investment remains in spite of major foreign investors such as Blackrock abruptly abandoning vaunted investments uncritically cheer-led by the former Labour government and which incurred taxpayer losses in the $100 million plus bracket.

One scheme to blanket productive pasture with solar panels is described by its foreign-financed promoters as being necessary to “accelerate the decarbonisation of the capital ” even though Wellington gets its power from hydro electricity.

De-banking is the most sinister manifestation of the climate cult because adherents pressure banks to quite literally cancel other bank clients who for example own petrol stations.

The suburban compulsion to be seen to be a world leader in contemporary morals involves New Zealand automatically signing up without reservation to any global move at all associated with being on the “right side of history,” and which allows the South Seas nation in its own coveted phrase to be viewed as “punching above its weight.”

It is in this mood mixing as it does piety with braggadocio that the fact is deliberately ignored that the Paris Agreement specifically recognises the basic priority of safeguarding food in the quest to end hunger.

This as with the EU being dependent on New Zealand instead of the other way around is always ignored in the politico-media compulsion to conform to what has become their article of faith.

The New Zealand First initiative is to curb financial services blackmail conducted under the guise of institutional moralising.

It represents a long awaited line in the sand to counter Australasian governmental policy posing as helping while the inflictors know that it harms.