Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Lilith __,
Seriously, I'm not seeing that dairy farmers are the victims here.
Of increasing financialisation of their industry, perhaps, and trying to compete with big corporate farmers. Over the last decade, big banks have been lending to farmers just like homeowners, underpinned by expectations of perpetual capital gain in land values. Imagine that puts quite some pressure on, as interest rate rises loom this year.
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I'm not talking about total income but things we do *well*. Software, screen production, fashion, wine, boutique food, professional consulting, that sort of thing.
I'm expecting in our future, exports higher in ideas than molecules will be worth more. Don't thank that's such a radical projection is it?
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NZ needs to export more niche-targeted processed dairy products, not megatons of basic milk powder for others to capture the value in. Moving the dairy industry up the value chain can be done way less destructively than simply doubling its raw production. Takes smarter leadership though.
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Russell Brown,
a straight-up carbon tax would have been more effective
Like the one originally proposed, you mean..
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Dairy doesn’t need to wait for research or magical technology – they need to pull their heads in right now rather than plan to *double* the current livestock levels.
For some reason just not doing more of the same shit is beyond the imagination of many public commentators and politicians. Farming industry leaders, I’d understand not wanting to see that as an option.
There are many other export industries NZ does well in without the same public subsidy via environmental damage and privatisation of public resources like water. Or the trading reputation risk from trashing our green brand.
Our young people don’t want to be farmers, recent recruitment difficulties suggest. More interested in high-value careers in creative industries, information technology, social service research, etc. Who can blame them.
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Hard News: Media data, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
If leaving it to the market worked, wouldn't some other country have tried it?
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Hard News: Media data, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
or regulation, like other countries have.
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Hard News: Media data, in reply to Yamis,
That's like a record company claiming singles would cost the same as albums if people were allowed to buy them separately.
And without a government prepared to regulate broadcasters like every other civilised nation does, Sky know they can get away with crap like this.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Hebe,
30s, honest
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to Ross Bell,
Dead romantic
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