ARDERN COPS OUT

Jacinda Ardern failed to take Donald Trump to task for his lack of action on climate change, even though she has previously claimed that climate change is the 'nuclear free' moment of her generation.

GIVEN HER ELECTION campaign opening statement that climate change was 'the nuclear free moment of her generation', we might have reasonably expected Jacinda Ardern to have taken up the issue with climate change denier President Donald Trump.

While Ardern was more than happy to discuss the issues she had talked with Trump about, particularly trade agreements and gun law reform, she was less forthcoming on climate change - which was, after all, the principal reason why she was at the United Nations in the first place.

While the mainstream media have described her comments as 'vague', a more accurate interpretation is that they were 'evasive'.

Said Ardern: 'I mentioned briefly the climate summit and referenced that, but it was not a long discussion.'

When the going gets tough, Arden has the tendency to..disappear. She had the opportunity, perhaps the only opportunity she will ever have, to take Trump to task for the enormous amount of environmental damage his policies are inflicting on the planet. She failed to do her job.

During  her address to the United Nations  Ardern commented that, on climate change, 'no one has the luxury of copping out'. Apparently this doesn't apply to Ardern herself.

Later Donald Trump tweeted that his meeting with Jacinda Ardern had been 'great'.