Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing

Re:Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing by ab737 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:38AM (#27590409)

Don't let NZ's clean green marketing efforts delude you. Auckland is the most car dependent city in the world outside of the US. Christchurch is the most car dependent small city in the world.

To put that in perspective, there are as many cars on the road in Auckland per day as Berlin, which has 3.5x the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

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Re:Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing by contingencies on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:10AM (#27590647)

NZ has also, even more so than Australia, trashed all its rivers.

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Re:Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing by vertis on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:52AM (#27590512)

I said nothing about NZ (except that I was born there).

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Re:Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing by ab737 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:16PM (#27596634)

It's considered bad taste to criticise other countries for that which your home country is.

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Re:Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing by vertis on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:08AM (#27602047)

I'm both an Australian and NZ citizen. One of my parents is Australian and the other NZ.

Not that my ancestral line matters at all the legitimacy of my views. I spent 30 years living in Australia and I'll point out all the flaws I want.

Otherwise, nobody in Australia should ever criticize China (or insert any other country). But that's not the way the world works, nor the way I want the world to work. Everyone should be held to account. We don't exist in a vacuum.

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