Except for, as I said, change is inevitable and if we have a bit of vision we can lead the charge and diversify our economy in the process.
Even ignoring climate change, it's clear that it will not be economically viable to be a small trading country isolated at the bottom of the world that relies on exporting mass amounts of unprocessed primary goods. A tariff war will make our exports less competitive, an unstable world will disrupt supply chains and our shipping, and it will be less appealing for people to buy goods produced on the other side of the world as they start to become more eco conscious. Dairy is a luxury product, in a global recession dairy prices will collapse.
The covid stimulus payments were a missed opportunity to build new industry which is immune from the impact of climate change and also increasing global instability and a potential erosion of that liberal and democratic western alliance that has made the world so peaceful and prosperous since WW2.
Even ignoring climate change, it's clear that it will not be economically viable to be a small trading country isolated at the bottom of the world that relies on exporting mass amounts of unprocessed primary goods. A tariff war will make our exports less competitive, an unstable world will disrupt supply chains and our shipping, and it will be less appealing for people to buy goods produced on the other side of the world as they start to become more eco conscious. Dairy is a luxury product, in a global recession dairy prices will collapse.
The covid stimulus payments were a missed opportunity to build new industry which is immune from the impact of climate change and also increasing global instability and a potential erosion of that liberal and democratic western alliance that has made the world so peaceful and prosperous since WW2.