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Today I sit on my beach front home in Motueka saddened by your destructive, narrow minded and selfish approach to my future. We as young people are going to see the brunt of catastrophic climate change you had the opportunity to end! Politicians …Letter to the Editor:

An Open Letter to Prime Minister John Key

Dear Mr. John Key,

Today I sit on my beach front home in Motueka saddened by your destructive, narrow minded and selfish approach to my future.

We as young people are going to see the brunt of catastrophic climate change you had the opportunity to end! Politicians talk- leaders act!

You have put money before people and sacrificed my future in the hands of your right wing extremist support in government. You’re pathetic agreement will not save Tuvalu, it will not stop Indonesian villages being destroyed and replaced with Palm and it will not help our Pacific Islands survive the brunt of the biggest challenge mankind has ever faced.

Mr. Key today I feel let down by you as a leader and ashamed to be a New Zealander. It gives me no hope in our future to know the white collar businessman like you value your money more than my future- it’s selfish, demoralising and destructive.

You have destroyed our reputation of a clean, green New Zealand and ended all chances of us becoming leaders. All chances of us stepping up to the challenge and leading this world are now gone- once the biggest opportunity in our time has been destroyed by the dangerous words that slip out of your mouth with no thought for my future. Mr Key you have let us all down!

How you sleep at night goes beyond human like behaviours. You should feel guilty that you threw all opportunities of a positive future down the drain because of politics.

Well over 180,000 people in New Zealand alone were right behind you to do more and you failed us all. But it’s ok Mr. Key because your short sighted future means you can still drive your flash car, live in your flash house and put money before people while maintaining popularity- it may be ok for you but it’s not ok for your children, your grandchildren and the future generations of NZ who will reap the disaster you have sown.

I can only hope that you will see the light and act now to do more. We are running out of time, Copenhagen gave us hope but it’s not quite over yet Mr. Key.

Finally, Welcome home to Aotearoa! A land that granted women the right to vote, rose to the challenges of historic treaty breaches and a land that became world leaders when we told US Nuclear Ships to go somewhere else! What’s your legacy Mr. Key? What will we remember PM John Key for?

Not so kind regards
Johny O’Donnell
15 year old

ENDS

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