That the re-zoning of green land for other uses must only occur by absolute national necessity. Policies to protect the environment must be realistic and achievable and not based on impossible goals.
Following on from the physical and mental health of a people is the health of the environment in which they live. If healthy people are subjected to an unhealthy environment, their health will degrade. The physical, natural environment must therefore be protected to the best of our collective ability.
The industrial age has, on the whole, improved the lives of our people by the millions. It has also introduced challenges for how to manage industrial-scale waste and pollution. These things are not preventable, they are only controllable. They cannot be eliminated, but their effects can be mitigated. It is therefore the task of the National government to balance activities which damage the natural environment against the benefits that those activities bring in all other aspects of life.
Forests, fields and green spaces should not be removed or consumed except by an absolute national necessity, such as an immediate need to provide employment or housing. It must be recognised that there are genuine circumstances in which, for the greater good, certain actions must be taken that result in short-term environmental damage. It is not acceptable to expect people to degrade their quality of life to that of pre-industrial times for the sake of the preventing industrial pollution, and all people that have ever advocated for this, are invariably hypocrites.
The policies which the state deploys for the protection of the environment must be based on realistic and achievable goals, not based on fantasies, resources which do not exist, money which nobody has, or based on hypocritical expectations. Offshoring or relocating polluting industries overseas is a mistake. When this occurs, the National government loses any control over the environmental impact, which tends to get worse as a result.
The actions that can be encouraged in everyday life, such as recycling and garbage management, tight scrutiny of water companies, fishing and hunting controls, seeding of plants and trees, are, cumulatively, more impactful in protecting the environment than ideals-based but flawed schemes.
By National Rebirth Party
