Now if the J.H was John howard I would have thought it significant.
John Hewson having a go at Scomo is nothing new.Makes a lot out of renewables just like the Turnbull family.
I don't have a problem with that, like you I've changed my opinion on nuclear energy, never thought I would, but it must be considered, even though countries in Europe are shutting them down. Just don't let the Russians build it.
He does however make a few good points in regard to agriculture, in particular, quote
, "shallow or no tilling".
We drove up the Barton highway last November and there was a strong wind blowing, a farmer was ploughing the already dry soil and I swear it was like driving through a dust storm.
Rather than exporting our waste, why isn't being treated and being turned into biofuels as per several posts above? OK. so other countries don't want our cough now, companies here won't invest because they won't make enough money in the short term (I'm guessing), perhaps we need something like a future fund to be investing in stuff that the private sector doesn't seem to want to as it's not profitable.
quote
, "Why do we accept that some 80 per cent of our exports of canola to Europe are used to manufacture biofuels there rather than here? "
Why do we still run cattle/sheep on very marginal land, I understand the process of doing burns and the like in areas when needed to reduce fuel, but why the wholesale clearing of land? I can remember reading somewhere that since the Europeans have been in Australia, we have lost some 40% of our vegetation.
AbstractAims. Australia is among one of the world’s wealthiest nations; yet, its relatively small human population (22.5 million) has been responsible for
academic.oup.com
Every year at least 500,000 hectares are cleared in Australia. With it we lose thousands of birds, reptiles and mammals and make climate change worse.…
www.bushheritage.org.au
This seems to be a sensible thing to be doing.
Reforesting the world: the Australian farmer with 240m trees to his name
IMO most of us are far too shortsighted, profit and greed rule the country, screw everyone else as long as I'm having a good time, that's all that matters.
As I have said many times before, I'm a doom and gloom merchant, I don't think there is anything good about a lot of the human race, and to be honest the sooner the world goes back to nature without humans, the better.
ducks for cover,