Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
I understand you're deeply upset about NZ's vaccination program & the jobs mandates, but that cauldron of distrust & resentment seems to have overflowed into everything the govt does.
It's hardly a "totalitarian rort" when it just requires more than 60% of MP's to overturn the ban on privatising our water resources.
Did you know we already have laws which require 61% or more of MP's to overturn, such as David Seymour's Euthanasia Bill needed 61% of MP's to overturn the ban on Euthanasia. Lowering the voting age is another one.
There were no howls of outrage & accusations of totalitarianism over these were there.
Secondly, most of us here take water for granted, but with climate change, water is increasingly going to cause conflicts between whole countries, states & private landowners.
Consider the tensions between Pakistan, India & Nepal over the Indus River system or the various US States the Mississippi River flows through or in Australia the conflict between NSW, Queensland, Victoria, ACT & South Australia over the Murray-Darling River .
Water is essential to sustain life & our countries water resources are too important to be sold off to the highest bidder. That would be very short sighted indeed.