Those Green Crosses you are seeing nailed up alongside the road is a silent protest against the environmental damage intensive farming causes New Zealand.
Activists decided to hijack the Green Cross protest in light of the catastrophic weather we are seeing caused by global warming pollution emitted by the agricultural industry.
One activist told The Daily Blog, “One cow’s waste is the equivalent of 14 humans. We have 10 million cows in this country, that’s the equivalent to 140 million human beings pissing and shitting into our rivers every year. The political power of the Farming lobby protects them from true regulation, and we have decided to challenge that by hijacking the Green Crosses campaign to highlight the environmental damage”.
Farmers are 1.16% of the population, represent 5.5% of GDP, make 48% of greenhouse gas emissions and create 70% of NZ’s contribution to global warming yet they are able to run roughshod over any legislative reigning in because the have such enormous political and economic power.
The activist told The Daily Blog, “Every time you see one of those Green Crosses alongside the motorway, remind yourself of the Farming lobby, their immense political power and their never ending pollution which is causing extreme weather events which are flooding our cities”.
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Well, since we are all too NIMBY here in NZ to explore and sell our own oil or gas or minerals or invest in big industry, we’ll just have to rely on farming to save us and feed us, not so.
The majority of ordinary people actually want all those things. They just don’t have any political leaders demanding it for them (because they’re all neoliberals) — or any press outlets that would ever publish such demands.
And so everybody leaves the country.
On the ag. issue, the government should come up with a scheme to provide the latest pollution reduction techniques, without sacrificing high yields or reducing the available grazing/cropping lands.
Yep. And want a few nuclear power stations. Because we need them. Most the developed world has them.
Yes an obvious solution.
I think we need to stop using generic terms like “farmers” as it tars everyone with the same brush. That said I can already hear the ‘ but what about the exports’ crowd. Fine but start talking about the true cost and not just the top line revenue. Global warming aside what about water you can’t drink or you can but it probably comes with a high chance of cancer when consumed over a long period.
then we also need to talk about the ‘real cost’ of everything we import. Is anyone ready for that? I mean those E-cars where do they come from? All of that food that we don’t grow here, where does it come from? Do we want to know the real costs, or do we just want to feel like we care?
Well, given that EVs built with current technology are expensive environmental nightmares, I vote that they just want to pretend to care.
B.S.
E.V’s are not the solution to this crazy world obsession with mostly pointless (and often one to a car) driving. But it does remove half the damaged caused by driving an I.C.E vehicle.
The solution is public transport, shared cars, driverless (automated) taxis. BUT people are TRAINED and brainwashed into NOT wanting the/a solution.
“this crazy world obsession with mostly pointless (and often one to a car) driving.”
I think if you ask the billions of people who drive cars everyday they’ll tell you they find them to be an all around better mode of transport than walking, donkeys, horses, camel, ox, elephant, bicycle, scooter, cart, carriage, train, bus and motorbike because they are warm, dry, fast, efficient, convenient, relatively safe, can carry kids, tools and groceries, get you to work, take you on holiday and they move you door to door more time/cost efficiently than public transport. I dont understand why thats crazy, pointless, obsessive.
Public transport only works in busy areas and there would need to be a massive investment in rolling stock and personnal and a will to pay wages that match the work load. In Chch the half price fares boosted numbers for 3 -4 weeks then they dropped of because so many buses were cancelled at the last minute getting to work was a nightmare. Shared cars is a good idea not so sure of the driverless cars. Working from home was hailed as the best thing since slide bread but that has proved to be a other damp squid as productivity falls and people decide they actually want to be with work colleagues not small children
Ummm, no. Just no.
Do some basic research.
Ignoring the damage that mining and disposing lithium and rare earth elements causes, they are still not the answer.
Practically every single extra kWh of electricity that goes into EVs comes from thermal generation and the world produces only enough lithium in a year to replace only 10% of ICE vehicles.
Your problem is the same as most greenies. You know enough to sound virtuous but not enough to actually understand the problem let alone the solution.
People want independence and not what this damn autocratic govts tells them to do and how to live their life. And that includes how to move around.
And iPhones, and tablets, and laptops, and everything else that uses lithium and cobalt.
So what’s your point RB? Didn’t anyone say EVs are perfect? It’s such a bullshit argument. That’s like saying people who are trying to come up with solutions have to sail, or walk to the events otherwise they are hypocrites. Also if we weren’t slanted so much towards dairy I am sure there are plenty of other crops we could grow. Wheat, soy etc being classic examples
Wheel. So you justify your classic crops by thinking they are better for the environment. What part of the environment. For every crop that goes in, calculate the diesel emissions used working the paddock The filthy fertiliser which is somehow better than that used on dairy farms, and worst of all the released carbon when ploughed. 4.5 tonnes per hectare. The methane emitted by livestock that eventually is dispersed, is replaced by released carbon that accumulates and never goes away. The great lie against livestock farming continues. Enjoy your cornflakes.
You will need all these things. To complete electrification, mining output must increase exponentially, which will require large amounts of low-cost oil and gas.
Domestically this would come from coal, using CTL gasification. Only then can you produce traction batteries (for autos) and solar panels (to produce fertiliser etc.).
Recycling all the batteries and panels is energy intensive. Nuclear power generation may be required.
To meet all transport requirements, you will still need private automobiles, tramways, trolleybuses and railways. You will still need every type of ranch and farm, at least until synthetic factory production is possible.
Thanks for your truth RB. I couldn’t get published.
100% jays… anyone with a moderate understanding of how batteries are made and spout off that evs are our saviour are complete morons.
Seem like a bunch of dorks honestly. Wool industry in NZ is in a serious crisis and is about to go under entirely and they bang on about dairy farmers so you can kiss that renewable resource goodbye.