Of course 45% of our rivers are poisoned you silly sleepy hobbits!
Well duh!
‘Sobering’ snapshot of NZ’s freshwater decline released
One expert says a new report on New Zealand’s declining freshwater quality is a “sobering snapshot” of how the country’s “economic and physical well-being” is being harmed without additional Government action.
The report, jointly authored by the Environment Ministry and Stats NZ, collates and outlines the latest data and research about the country’s water bodies.
Otago University environmental health researcher Tim Chambers said it was a “sobering snapshot” of the state of New Zealand’s freshwater ecosystems.
He said the report “clearly showed” that further action is “required to protect our freshwater for our physical and economic well-being”.
“An estimated 45% of our river length is not suitable for swimming due to bacterial contamination. In 2017, 1200 people got sick after reporting contact with recreational water.”
Chambers said bacterial contamination at tested sites was either getting worse or not getting better.
Of course 45% our rivers are poisoned!
A cow shits the same as 14 humans, we have 10 million cows, that’s the equivalent of 140million humans pissing and shitting into our rivers, but fuck that – MORE COWS!
Right wing climate deniers, Boomers who don’t like being told they’ve contributed in any way shape or form to the current climate catastrophes and those who profit from cow pollution will scream climate change is a socialist hoax and that’s why not one precious cow life will be culled ever because every calf is scared!
Cue Monty Python.
Won’t some one think of the Cows?
Sure John Key sold 49% of our Hydro Assets to create a $400million irrigation slush fund that was used to intensify dairy farming while polluting our water and generating climate changing gasses, but fuck that – MORE COWS!
We pay a price for NZ dairy and NZ meat that is set by an international market, so we are competing with the 100million others wanting that product but fuck that – MORE COWS!
The quisling corporate farmers claim they are generating jobs, yet they import cheap foreign labour to do those jobs, but hey – who cares? MORE COWS!
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!
SO! FUCKING! WHAT!
MORE!!!!!!!! COWS!!!!!!!!!!
As the reality of the climate change the polluter profiteers have denied was ever occurring in the first place starts to dawn, all focus now turns to adaptation rather than mitigation so we can have MORE COWS!
I propose that New Zealand urgently spends $1Trillion dollars into research and development so that golden Cows can float in the sky with massive golden flying paddocks so as to never be drowned by the floods their farts create!
Whatever the problem is silly sleepy hobbits, MORE COWS! is always the solution.
Cow Udder Alles!
Whatever the question is, the answer is always more cows.
Stay classy Aotearoa.
PS – don’t drink the tap water.
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Hey, great news! Our waterways are fucked, our tap water is soon to become toxic, but at least we stopped 3 waters…
Not good at all but neither is Labour’s solution, the horrendous bureaucratic mess of unelected unsackable taxmen and lets not forget Tuku, aka, 3 Waters!
The numbers around the economic contribution of farming are at best misleading.
However.
New Zealand is good at dairy. But it needs to get good at dairy without the pollution.
It’s terribly, terribly entitled to claim that exporting milk gives you the right to dpreay shit everywhere.
Bizarre to think people believe 3 waters is at fault and it hasn’t even been implemented yet.
Actually, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again thinking you will get a different result.
Labour offering a solution and Luxon promoting to Farmers yesterday to remember they are still the party for farmers, so he is part of the problem, not solution.
But wait. Now we will have some bs about us feeding 40 million people so it’s all ok. Apparently we are incredibly efficient at dairy farming. So this is what efficiency means? Leave everyone to pick up the tab. Reports of farms under reporting fertiliser use is probably linked to our so called efficiency
When you say “a bit,” Capt. Otorohanga, what unit of measurement are you using.
Is it your mark one eyeball?
Your thumb?
Science?
Even a reasonable guess will satisfy my curiosity 🙂
45% of monitored rivers, how many are monitored?
What utter bollocks. Pointing out major sources of nitrates, which federated farmers acknowledge as an issue, is not giving free license to other sectors to ruin rivers.
Bullshit. Explain how upstream from Hamilton is polluted? So is it Cambridges fault that the water is undrinkable and damn near poisonous to swim in?
Good image. It’s all blokes trying to squeeze the last drop of semen from the golden bull. The only female there bears her breast to her Male child. We can see where our problems lie can’t we! It’s that the wealthy tend to lie, and that’s why we have to keep females poor and pregnant as otherwise they will also catch the Midas disease.
Don’t you think we are in a pig’s muddle? And they are supposed to keep clean habits similar to our midden system of the 18th and earlier centuries. We have advanced a bit; though one wonders. Let’s find a good group of yeomen with that peasant* instinct of not trusting anyone and ruminating before we act and bob’s your uncle.
* Peasant: a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
“peasants left the farms to work in industry”
Time to reconsider our peasant roots if we still have any roots, now that industry is diminishing and the rich are a bunch of Twisted Sisters and oddball males and hangers-on.
Hobbits look like good people in the present light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI – We’re Not Goin to Take It
and The Price with lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLOK7TqduI
And up to date we are: – After Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider officially approved of Ukrainians using the band’s 1984 hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as their rallying cry, he quickly received backlash for blaming Russia and its people, not Russian leader Vladimir Putin, for the invasion of Ukraine.27/02/2022
Where’s our hobbit house I think it’s time to step off the carousel. Copying the look of beehives doesn’t mean that we get their industry and mateship.
And where do you think those rivers start and flow through before they get to our towns and cities?
This is pollution, this is not climate change. If you wish to battle climate change, you need to create (or join) a movement that seeks to replace (or better regulate) the ever expanding capitalist economic system.
It is telling, extremely effin telling that the capitalist system is not part of any climate change agenda. it is equally telling that we, the people cop the lions share of blame for climate change.
Put two and two together and it makes you wonder, it really does….
It was paradise by the white gold meant people quickly converted and now we have appalling rivers everywhere but especially in the Waikato and Canterbury.
Politicians just don’t really care, the only person who has done anything is David Parker who was trying to see that the two main fertiliser companies had to keep a record of when and how much and to who they sold their super phosphate. It was a bloody good start and would have reduced the use of phosphate by 30% of farmers.
The local regional councils are to monitor this. But at the moment they prefer the ‘education’ approach and they may start to charge farmers in 3 years… Jesus Christ farmers know this and they bloody well know they can get away with it.
As a life long router, observer of rivers whilst up to my waste in water there’s a bit missing in the debate about cows. It is balance sheet alternatives to cows. Sheep don’t pollute waterways but there’s no money.
More concerning is carbon credit tree farming which dries and acidifies watercourses, followed by massive sedimentation. The green urban types love it, but I see it as a disaster for environment, economy and taxpayer. Its as big a problem as cows.