"Soil, water, and air: the stuff of life. Dairy compromises them all, to the point where you have to ask if the good things it does for the country are good enough. "
Claire Browning digs deep in this article and comes up with ... cow muck!
She's not much impressed by Federated Farmers Don Nicholson either!
"Complaining about the cost to farmers of power and petrol price rises, Fed Farmers spokesperson Don Nicolson explained that, although he owns a pine forest block, he will not participate in the ETS: he objects to the scheme so much, he cannot stomach benefiting from its subsidies.
But whether he signs up for the forestry part or not, Mr Nicolson should get down on his knees and beg the government and taxpayers’ pardon."
Claire isn't taken in by Dairy NZ’s campaign and finishes with,
"There’s nothing clever, though, about exploiting the environment, and you and I, the taxpayers, except that for too long they have got away with externalising costs, two and three times over, dressed up in different clothes. Which probably proves we’re actually not that bright, because in fact, the dude is nude."
2 comments:
I agree with Claire about our lack of intelligence - I often witness little creatures showing extreme intelligence in the way they survive on our Planet even at the 'peril of human beings' actions. When we chose to see the Planet as a 'living force' and not just a piece of dirt that we can exploit for money and production, we'll really be living intelligently and our evolved choices will reflect that. It's time for us to accept responsibility that we create our own reality - that's being intelligent and showing 'loads of gumption'.
Now if we can just get everyone else to see that Poppy...
There's a garden/arbortoreum I've been visiting lately at West Plains that has been planted by a man who seems to have created the environment just for it's own sake.
It's full of birds and doubtless insects and miriads of unseen critters and is such a contrast to the farms that surround it, in terms of biodiversity, atmosphere, 3-dimensional-ness and intent and so on.
You'd enjoy a visit to see it.
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