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The Kākā Project: The economics of sufficiency

Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon believe recycling and owning electric cars will take Aotearoa to net zero. Environmental historian Catherine Knight advocates economics of sufficiency instead

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Cathrine Dyer
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It may feel good to do your recycling and switch to electric cars and renewable energy, but they are not the way out of the climate crisis. Photo: Lynn Grieveson/Getty Images

The Kākā’s climate correspondent

Cathrine Dyer
and
Bernard Hickey
had a chat with environmental historian and author Catherine Knight about why ‘feel good' actions like recycling and owning an electric car are unlikely to be enough to create a transition to zero emissions, let alone a just one.

Knight says comments like those from Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins1 in their firs…

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