Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. This the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill is a good bill. It doesn't go far enough. Speaking to physics the reality is that we need to act very urgently as a species to end our use of fossil fuels. So it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to have a piece of legislation arguing that we have a responsibility to promote exploration of fossil fuels when we know that we actually have to stop our use of fossil fuels and we have to stop looking for more fossil fuels because we can't afford to burn all the fossil fuels we already know exist. And that's very very clear. The scientists have been saying that for quite a while now but they're saying it with ever more urgency. And it's not just climate change. At the same time we have a biodiversity crisis and these two things are interrelated. And that is why it's vitally important that humans stop taking too much out of the Earth. You know we're killing the goose that lays the golden egg. And actually that is what the National Party—and many others—are recommending. They're saying Oh to be more wealthy we need to keep taking more and more and more from the planet." which is ultimately going to stop us being able to live and thrive and live well on the planet. Now we can live well but not if we're in a race to the bottom with a whole bunch of other countries seeing how fast we can dig up our non-renewable resources and then using them and throwing them away so that some billionaires can have private jets and fly for eight-minute flights. That is not a world that makes sense. That's not an economy that makes sense. The things that are most important in life to people are spending time in nature and spending time with their children. Yes we need to have the basics. We need to have enough kai—food—to put on the table. We need to have warm dry homes. We can have all of this. We need to have an ability to get around in a fuel-efficient way in an energy-efficient way and in a way that doesn't harm the planet. And all of that is possible. But if we keep engaging in this race to the bottom to exploit the non-renewable resources of the planet then our children will not thank us they will have no future—or they'll have an increasingly dangerous and destabilised future where they're struggling to survive with increased severity of storms droughts food shortages not enough water and conflict over resources. That is in the future if we don't change course. So the Green Party supports the bill. We think it should go further and we think instead of "manage" the word should be "regulate". We need to regulate. And we need to have a clear plan to phase out the use of fossil fuels.And I just I just have to recommend a couple of things to the members of the National Party. Firstly I know you guys don't have a lot of time or attention span for reading but maybe you'd like to watch some documentaries on Netflix. Sir David Attenborough has an amazing documentary from a few years ago that really goes through the threats to life on this planet and I recommend you all watch that because you might trust him. And the other film that really comes to mind listening to the National Party speeches on this is Don't Look Up. I don't know if people watching at home have seen the film Don't Look Up. It's a satire. It's tragically close to reality. If a comet was headed directly for Earth I have no doubt the National Party members would say "Oh we shouldn't destroy this comet to save humanity. There are some 'tech bros' out there some billionaires who have a plan a really realistic plan to mine all of the wealth on that comet that's about to destroy Earth and all the life on it." That is literally what I'm hearing from those members—that we're going to get wealth by continuing to take more out of the planet than is possible to sustain life on earth. So I really recommend a little bit of education for some people in the House on biology physics—all of those things. The reality is that "necessity is the mother of invention" and humans are very adaptable. We have the opportunity and the ability to say "No more fossil fuels" to start preserving and conserving and rewilding parts of the planet. And that is how we're going to allow nature to heal. And ultimately that is what humanity needs Kia ora."