Andrew Dickens Afternoons

OPINIONSo what dispiriting news.Turns out the emissions of households in New Zealand have risen by 20% in a decade.We’re using more cars.  Our households consume and dispose more stuff.  We fly everywhere more often because it’s never been cheaper.  Meanwhile down on the farms emission from sheep, beef, deer and poultry are down very slightly on 10 years ago.  Well done lads. But dear old dairy is up contributing more emissions than the manufacturing and electricity and gas supply industries combined, rising 27 per cent over a decade.This is the reality.  Despite all the awareness and all the well meaning changes we’ve had a crack at we’re worse than ever. That includes all the greenies who hector us.  That includes all the striking school children who say nobody’s listening or acting and then pop off with Mum and Dad in the July school holidays for a carbon belching  road trip or Pacific Island holiday. Talk is cheap and walking the walk is hard.  That said, we would have been even dirtier if we hadn’t made