We’re trying something new, an intermittent post called Debate of the Day, that presents an idea or current event as a starting point for discussion and debate. Same rules apply as elsewhere on The Standard. Bring your best game, share your thinking, with humour or gravitas. We’re looking for engagement with ideas, a sense of curiosity, and robust debate.
Feedback on the Debate of the Day concept and format is welcome in this thread too.
Today’s topic: should farms be regulated to centre climate action and nature?
Rod Oram at Newsroom,
Opinion: “National is committed to this country’s climate change goals,” declares the party that could form the next government.
Then in the very same statement on Wednesday, National announced a bonfire of farming regulations not seen since the 1990s.
But eliminating these regulations would intensify existing farming practices, which in turn would make farming’s climate impacts worse. Either National doesn’t understand such climate causes and effects. Or it cares only to win power, whatever the cost.
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