Posts by Farmer Green
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Nothing is surer than a reduction in dependence on fossil fuels. Neither of us will see that though. There is still an awful lot of coal, not to mention shale gas.
It might be better to keep the oil for absolutely essential uses , rather than burning it all. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to BenWilson,
"environmentalists" does cover a wide range of positions though doesn't it?
They may be referring to the group who want to return to subsistence agriculture and a world population of a billion or so. Still, that may well happen at some point.
Not a lot that we could do about it , depending on the cause. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to BenWilson,
Don't be fooled by Oxalis ; it will come back 10-fold , especially if you disturb the ground. Repeated green manure crops of mustard will exhaust it.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to BenWilson,
The comments following the presentation put it into a better perspective.
Ignore that farmerbraun bloke :-) -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to BenWilson,
Ben there have only been two “dryish ” summers in the last thirteen years.
And neither of them have been of great duration, which is the key factor. Periods of soil moisture deficit are common : the length of the period of deficit is one of the factors determining “severity” of the “drought”.
Other factors affecting “severity” include
1. preparedness
2. reserves of cash and feed
3. indebtedness
4. product prices at the timeFB is just saying that it has been much worse in the last 35 years, particularly between 1975-1999.
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/newzealand/figure13b.htm
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Caution; some of the information herein may be disturbing to closed minds!
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Wet dreams for climate alarmists:-
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/8405004/North-Island-drought-worst-in-history
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Talking of fantasy: is everyone enjoying the current fine weather?
http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/index.php/2010/12/days-of-soil-moisture-deficit-in-northland-1952-to-2010/ -
Alan Watts on the use of the psychedelics (LSD, mescaline , psilocybin, and cannabis) :-
, . . . there are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs. First, use of these drugs may be dangerous. However, every worth-while exploration is dangerous—climbing mountains, testing aircraft, rocketing into outer space, skin diving, or collecting botanical specimens in jungles. But if you value knowledge and the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life, you are willing to take the risks. It is not really healthy for monks to practice fasting, and it was hardly hygienic for Jesus to get himself crucified, but these are risks taken in the course of spiritual adventures. Today the adventurous young are taking risks in exploring the psyche, testing their mettle at the task just as, in times past, they have tested it—more violently—in hunting, dueling, hot-rod racing, and playing football. What they need is not prohibitions and policemen, but the most intelligent encouragement and advice that can be found.Second, drug use may be criticized as an escape from reality. However, this criticism assumes unjustly that the mystical experiences themselves are escapist or unreal. LSD, in particular, is by no means a soft and cushy escape from reality. It can very easily be an experience in which you have to test your soul against all the devils in hell. For me, it has been at times an experience in which I was at once completely lost in the corridors of the mind and yet relating that very lostness to the exact order of logic and language, simultaneously very mad and very sane. But beyond these occasional lost and insane episodes, there are the experiences of the world as a system of total harmony and glory, and the discipline of relating these to the order of logic and language must somehow explain how what William Blake called that "energy which is eternal delight" can consist with the misery and suffering of everyday life.9
The undoubted mystical and religious intent of most users of the psychedelics, even if some of these substances should be proved injurious to physical health, requires that their free and responsible use be exempt from legal restraint in any republic that maintains a constitutional separation of church and state.10 To the extent that mystical experience conforms with the tradition of genuine religious involvement, and to the extent that psychedelics induce that experience, users are entitled to some constitutional protection. Also, to the extent that research in the psychology of religion can utilize such drugs, students of the human mind must be free to use them. Under present laws, I, as an experienced student of the psychology of religion, can no longer pursue research in the field. This is a barbarous restriction of spiritual and intellectual freedom, suggesting that the legal system of the United States is, after all, in tacit alliance with the monarchical theory of the universe, and will, therefore, prohibit and persecute religious ideas and practices based on an organic and unitary vision of the universe.11
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Hard News: When the drug warriors turn, in reply to Joe Wylie,
"very old indeed"
Harrumph!