The problem is you can only vote for whoever is available, or not vote. Personally I've voted Green for decades in the hope they're slightly more ethical and climate aware.

I agree with what you say, and suspect that nature will takes its course, though I hope not of course. Luckliy the Western powers seem hell bent on turning every country into a totalitarian regime, with increasing powers of surveillance that George Orwell could hardly have imagined, in the name of protecting us from terrorism - so we may just get those authoritarian regimes. Although it seems to me they will probably just look after themselves...

This is great, and I have spread it around as much as possible - but I do have one question - where does the figure that NZ has the fourth highest per capita GHG emissions come from? I've searched for this on the web but all the lists I could find had us way down. I admit the search wasn't 100% thorough however, and probably turned up a lot of outdated info.