New Zealand: Does it matter if climate bill dies?

Colin James: Does it matter if climate bill dies?

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Unwillingness to pay is not a New Zealand-only phenomenon. Aside
from tokenistic feel-good voluntarism by rich Northern Hemisphere
middle-class people, there is little appetite for real
lifestyle-changing action.

Thus foreign governments' rhetoric,
too, should not be mistaken for action. Even the action they do take is
often not quite what it seems. Moreover, any post-2012 world agreement
is likely to be suboptimal and widely cheated on - as the Kyoto
Protocol has been.