Custodians

Dear current government of New Zealand,

I am one of your many youths, aspiring to live a life of fecundity, love and happiness. In New Zealand.

While the above is marginally possible now,

I fear, legitimately, that your disregard for long term protection of our resources will turn me, amongst many others, away from New Zealand forever.

The sales of NZ assets is no clever policy.

From childhood we are taught about protection and sharing of resources:

we are also taught that we must entrust adults with sentinel responsibility as they are wise custodians of our future.

That they know better.

However you, the current government of NZ, have easily slipped the entrusted responsibility by unashamedly making short term profits off NZ’s resources.

You are draining the land’s wairua; you are building your future on your peoples’ crushed bodies.

We, the inhabitants of NZ, know that you daily lie to us, so that your pockets are double lined while the rock and land below us, the legacy of  25 million years, is annihilated for short term gain.

A gain that is short lived. That is not even national gain, but simply a mere few’s gain.

This sounds neither like wisdom, nor a clear knowledge of what the population you so calledly lead wants and needs.

This sounds like greed. Stupidity. Lack of appreciation. Lack of respect for this land. For these people.

This sounds like a lack of knowledge that we are all connected. You. Me. The land. The lack of knowledge that the finite gas that fractures the land, will rise to suffocate our waterways and wells. The deep sea oil that smothers sea life. The mining that imbalances this new Zealand we can no longer call home because of your lack of empathy, your big greedy eyes and bellies; your  lack of knowledge.

If you feel nothing for these people and this land, you are not worthy of this legacy we call New Zealand.

From,

A despairing New Zealander

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