Who Doesn’t Love New Zealand?

New Zealand is the fifth most admired country on Earth (the list goes: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands). It’s hard not to love a nation that seems to do everything right when it comes to taking care of its people and the planet as a whole. 

Following the mass shooting earlier in the year New Zealand banned AR-15s almost immediately.  No corrupt relationships with the NRA, no debate on a completely noncontroversial subject, no specious logic about who or what kills, just swift and decisive action.

Now we see that their zero carbon legislation has passed with virtually no push-back.

Perhaps the U.S. could learn something from this: respect follows an honest commitment to humanity’s well-being.  It’s an instinct with which we were all born; it’s not something we can only learn from a Buddha or a Socrates or a Jesus Christ.

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One comment on “Who Doesn’t Love New Zealand?
  1. marcopolo says:

    Craig,

    Fifth most admired? By who? Who on earth complies these strange lists?

    “New Zealand banned AR-15s”, not very difficult since legal ownership of such weapons has been virtually impossible for several decades.

    The same could be said for NZ’s “Carbon Neutral By 2050” policy.

    Nz is a nation with virtually no heavy industry, small population and abundant hydro and Geo-thermal power sources.

    The nation’s rich volcanic soil and massive forest resources make achieving a carbon neutral position very easy.

    Again, it’s a case of importing all the “dirty’ industrial goods from Korea, Japan, China or India while boasting of how green you keep your little patch.

    This is like saying, ” We here in Rhode Island are really zero emission, but we buy all or power from New Jersey !