Posts by Stephen
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I realise thats a joke, but I now feel the need to point out that there are plenty of large scale organic farmers who are no different from any other farmers, they've just made a big and difficult decision to go for the money in organics (difficult because a farm can't be certified organic for 2-3 years of not using chemicals, at which time you must sell produce in the 'normal' market - quite difficult times.)
And then there's the farmers who won't sell to further away than 200km or whatever, who obviously have more of an 'ethic'.
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I worked in an organic apple orchard for a few months, and the apples were *awesome*. Thing is, they were all exported!
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Damn good point steve...
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There are a LOT of complaints about 'Swindle' pending too...this being one of them http://flet.org/node/20. Wikipedia has much more, as one would imagine.
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I'm way late on this, but what is the basis for "the hasty flushing of National's anonymous trusts in December," - they put a lot of money in or what?" Can't seem to find much other reference to this elsewhere on the web...
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It was 'global warming' because that's as far as anyone thought about it. When you DO think a bit further then one realises that in various areas there will be more rain/less rain, more snow/less snow, more intense hurricanes etcetera.
Methinks putting a market price on carbon is hardly conducive to Marxism, but there is probably *some* sort of appeal.
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I don't think Al Gore is presented as an expert, it's more that he is presented as someone who has collated the information *experts* into a very accessible format.