Who would do this?
Before: (some wag has put flip flops on the roof)
After: (environmentalists have tidied up the yard)
The environmentalists say:
As the sun rose over sleepy Helensville, we unfurled a truckload of
Ready-Lawn around the outside of National Party leader John Key’s
electorate office. Then came some pine trees, some one-dimensional cows
and a smattering of stumps. Finally a billboard went up saying: “Would
John solve this climate crime?”
(Translation: a climate crime is where you convert some land from forestry to dairy - i.e. chop down the pine trees and sow grass. It isn't a crime at all - in fact it is a pretty good idea with milk prices so high)
What is better: carving up some innocent grass and putting it over asphalt to wither and die, or cutting down some trees and growing grass for animals?
Do these environmentalists hate grass? If so, they should tell their friends soon.
What a great thing to do - good on the environmentalists! We need more folk like them out there. It is time that our politicians agree to bring agriculture - our biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - into the ETS immediately and act to halt activities that lead to increases in emissions - such as cutting down our trees to convert that land to corporate dairy farms. It is time to keep our loggers in jobs and to keep our dairy farmers in jobs too - not sell of land to huge corporates.
Posted by: CS | October 30, 2008 at 04:14 PM
Bringing agriculture into the ETS would probably just shut it down. That might not be very good for those nice dairy farmers (by the way - they are self-employed).
Why we would care about 'emissions' is beyond me. I assume you mean CO2, responsible for almost all of the plant growth around the world.
What is all this about 'corporate' dairy farms? Are you meaning that owner operators are good, but those who form a company are bad?
Posted by: The Optimist | October 30, 2008 at 04:30 PM
ur blog is shite
Posted by: steve from auckland | October 30, 2008 at 04:34 PM
Stupid eco-freaks are the planets worse enemy and i saw a cartoon showing KERMIT THE FROG calling up AL GORE and READING HIM THE RIOT ACT i mean these eco-freaks are idiots and frankly they should be put on these fires let them help put out these fires they have started with theri stupid lawsuits so instead of sitting in the trees let them realy save the trees but fighting the fires and the same to eco-freak ding-bat JULIA(BUTTERFLY)HILL and as for this wacko who calls himself TRE-ARROW i say let him rot in prison let him know america dosnt tollerate the crinimal acts he commited and the fact is the UNIBOMBER was a big time eco-freak who read AL GORES poppycock book EARTH IN THE BALANCE
Posted by: Flu-Bird | November 17, 2008 at 07:18 PM