A short YouTube monologue by James Shaw (co-leader of the Green Party NZ) addressing New Zealand's vulnerability to social and environmental crises. He warns about declining living standards and life expectancy, the risk of property values falling due to environmental change, and critiques superficial or 'greenwashing' responses and dismissive social labels.
We are the second most vulnerable country in the world. People struggling, seeing their living standards decline, their life expectancy decline. We actually have a colossal challenge in front of us. I sort of feel like we're kind of tiptoeing around some of those kind of conversations. All you're doing is mopping up the mess after the last cyclone. Kind of greenwashing. End of the spectrum. We're all guilty of it. There is a risk that your property value could drop to nil. No one will be happy with it. Someone's using the word greeny and hippie interchangeably. Yes. Not everybody who looks like me talks this way. Teach people that what they're looking at may not actually represent the truth. Straight up. Countries go to war over things like this. That's.
