Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Silly season

We are coming up to the so called silly season and what is being peddled as the main story today certainly fits the bill.
This land use manipulation is so nutty that it would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. The loonies who would run our lives have allowed themselves to be convinced that global warming is all man's fault and we should therefore do something about it. They then sign up to the Kyoto bollocks on my behalf. Anything they do in this regard from this start is doomed. We are now deeply involved in this carbon credits nonsense. And that is what it is, pure unadulterated crap. It is shuffling buts of paper around international desks with people clipping the ticket at every turn with no concrete return or even the prospect of a concrete return.
On the back of all this the Government yesterday announced the 'final plank' in its environment platform. This is mind numbingly stupid. The basic premise is that trees are good 'cos they eat the evil carbon dioxide (a minor 'greenhouse gas' by the way) and pastures is bad 'cos they feeds cows that burp and fart. Therefore, we need more of the former and less of the latter. First logical error right there. It's like saying bank robbers are bad and if we had no banks crime would decrease. So the 'tax or ban everything we don't like' government says if you convert forest to pasture you will be fined (and in all probability flogged). The return per acre from forestry is dropping like a stone, the return per acre from dairy is headed in the opposite direction. Landowners and farmers are businessmen and not idealogical stupid zealots. What are they going to do with their land? It is nuts. This bunch of pratts in the Beehive needs to get their ideas out of their never never land and back into the real world. A bloke in suit from Wellington arrives on a farm and tells the cocky to cease his profitable dairy farming and plant unprofitable pine trees so that he (the suit) can fufill his obligation to the stupid and useless Kyoto protocol? Yeah right. Agriculture is still the backbone of the economic activity of this place and the blokes that run it won't stand for this load of bollocks - or I sincerely hope they won't.

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