Today we answer these questions:
When you buy a DVD from a retailer you can check the rating G / PG / R16/R18 etc …and it has a brief description, such as warning against coarse language or nudity. So why are books not rated? I recently bought a book for a birthday present for a young teenager (13yrs old) and he revealed after a few chapters that there was a lot of 'adult' content and some bad language. Surely it would be a fairly straightforward process to rate books on the same basis used for film censorship?
In Wellington, we've replaced a network of electric trolleybuses with a fleet of twenty-something-year-old oil-burners.
Why?
What kind of an argument can you possibly make for burning diesel in a country where our electricity is mainly generated sustainably?
AND,,,
Do they count all the coal and oil we export as carbon under the Paris Agreement?
