New Zealand: Should John Key destroy the economy in an attempt to please the foreign MEDIA?

Colin James: Key's task harder than recession

Two years ago climate change was the excitement of the moment. But recession has sidelined it. Bothering about the environment is a luxury for the well-off. When the well-off feel poor or even just less well-off, the environment goes back of mind. When the poor can't eat, who among them cares about polar bears and kakapo?

Key gets this.
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It amounts to brand: clean-green, 100 per cent pure and all that. An ETS "review" risks the brand. It risks foreign media attacks.