Again from today's Southland Times.
Wake up Mr Guyton
Robert Guyton must be really affected by his life among the moles to think that Eric Roy would appear in a publicity stunt for the Green co-leader.
The wetsuit didn't prevent Russel Norman from being wet behind the ears, however.
Mr Guyton has obviously also not noticed that Eric Roy, along with National associates Nick Smith and Kate Wilkinson, together with Environment Southland, Southland District Council and the dairy industry, has been working methodically toward a solution to the problem.
Frankly, I place more trust on the Blue-Green approach to practical problem-solving than on the Green Party, Red-Green, headless chicken politics of panic, laced with its toxic mix of hypocritical "I'm all right Jack" self-interest, pseudo-science, hidden agendas, regressive negativity and fanatical determination to create a welter of problems for every solution.
IAN MCGREGOR
Invercargill
You go Ian, ya wee beauty!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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IAN MCGREGOR sounds like he would make a great blogger
He certainly knows how to spear the red/greens
Eric would make a great environmentalist and no doubt work well with Russel. Despite being a red green, doesn't mean Russel can't work with one of his cousins: a bluegreen. Not everyone is stuck in the 19th century in the national party like Gerry Brownlee.
Keep on asking Eric, I am sure he is up for some wetland restoration and a day of kayaking.
Would be good to see Eric Roy and the bluegreens take a strong position against the regional Lignite issue too, Those farmers could make great greenies...
Ray - Ian's the Green's greatest asset. When he froths that way, the reading public recoil at his ranting. It does us the world of good to have a loose unit like Ian on the rantan!
Anonymous - yes, Eric would be good, unconstrained by his party's ideology and influence. He'd learn from Russel and eventually grasp the need for real environmental action.
Anonymous - yes indeed - the Bluegreens, headed by a rampant Eric, taking Solid Energy to task over their proposals would be a very good thing for the public, especially those here in Southland.
So far it looks like all parties are proving this. to be true.
Shane - I very much agree with you that the core of the issue lies with land ownership. No one it seems, takes responsibility of the lagoon in the way the might if they owned it, the way, for example, a farmer owns his/her land. Iwi might be able to claim customary ownership (I wish!) and exercise the law to suit it's protection. That has yet to be explored here I think.
Wanna buy a slightly used lagoon?
very much a tragedy of the commons.
Wetland restoration needs to be a community priority.
The Greens secured over $8 million from the previous Government for the restoration and protection of wetlands in New Zealand.
That's a pretty focused effort, isn't it.
'Sitting on the sidelines' ..pffft!
Ah, but if I owned it might I preserve it for my own fishing (no green kayakers, thank you), or, even better, sell the rights to farmers to use it as a sump.
My place, after all.
The former would be called The Pleasance.
The latter, Devils Advocate.
:-)
I suppose exposing the flaws in your own argument is a noble thing to do Shane.
Now I'm left wondering why you favour it at all, given that it's so vulnerable to rotters like yourself!
Where does responsibility for wetlands actually lie now?
And btw, they are not flaws if it's MY land. If you have an idea how you want the place to operate, buy it with your own money. Not money stolen from taxpayers!
A plutocracy eh! Jolly good show! Daddy left me pot a cash so I'll by anything I so desire and do with it what I will!
Let them eat cake.
and what about the sky and the ocean Shane, who owns the sky, and what rights to people have to breath clean air? or have clean oceans?
As well as indivisual rights there are rights of communities and other species. The commons is a great thing, but needs enforcement, the same as any other thing that needs protecting.
If you want to protect property rights, you should also want common property (the commons) to be protected? Clean air is a right of the commons, as is clean water, clean oceans and our common heritage: national parks, wetlands, kiwi and all our other national treasures.
Thank you Robert and other for upholding our shared property rights.
You could say that big polluters that want to pollute our commons are wanting taxpayer handouts (subsidies) so they want 'money stolen from taxpayers!'
Tax thief's!
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