Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to andin,
taking a dim view of humanity.
Not really. We the people have been intentionally duped into a condition resembling narcolepsy. We wake up slowly , and one at a time . . . . at first.
"it needs to be changed and soon."
Mother Nature will sort it out if we don't.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
" Here, the challenge is that the concentrations of nitrates are quite low, so we need to be able to know that it can pick up those small amounts."
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Shocking news this morning at 5 a.m.
Apparently the waters that Forest and Bird et al want most to be cleaned up , will never be "swimmable" because they are under the ground.
You wouldn't read about it.
And I see Joyless Mike still repeating his nonsense about the Manawatu River being one of the most polluted in the world. Apparently this idiot is a lecturer in Ecology at a university. That says quite a bit about the state of education in Godzone. -
Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to linger,
The days when one attended university in order to read a subject are long gone for all but the most privileged, among whom I should count myself.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to mark taslov,
a lack of aptitude for development.
Appropriate development , surely?
We produce protein to satisfy the needs of 20 million people, and we sell it on the world market so that we can import items considered to be essential for our continued existence.
Mate, $80k will get you a mansion in Eketahuna.
Almost everywhere in Godzone the land is crying out for more people, whilst in the ghettoes that are our cities the people are crying out for more land." recklessly deforested land, substantial portions of it now drought prone as a result, being farmed unsustainably and inefficiently."
All reversible for very little effort in an " irreducibly pluvial" climate, without despoiling the waters. There is just no public will to do that ; the public wants enclaves , infrastructure, cafes, movie theatres, motor racing, new cars , trinkets etc.
We have the governments that we want and by and large they pander to our interests in order to remain electable. Ergo we have what we asked for ; why the bitching about housing crises, infrastructure deficiency, lack of jobs etc?
There is no shortage of work to be done, right?Who will help me eat this bread ? :-)
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Katharine Moody,
That does not quite address my question ; why can it not be successfully argued that we can develop all these needed skills using both our own reproductive capacity and educational facilities?
Are both of those things beyond us? -
Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Katharine Moody,
It would be interesting to see someone argue that we don't need any immigration at all : that we are perfectly capable of producing whatever level of population is considered optimal for this country, and educating them to the required standard.
It does seem that NZers in general place great value on wide open and clean spaces, so why the push to create a bigger population at the expense of the space that we have left?
Is it politically incorrect to suggest that we should not just fill up the country, and end up like the rest of the world? -
Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to mark taslov,
From your link:-
"....... there is widespread, or there is a reasonable amount of, drug use among young people, apparently," he said .
Well! Duh!!
Looks like backpedalling/damage control to me.
WTF is a reasonable amount of drug use? -
Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
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Slightly off topic, but welcome support for a rational approach?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-01/dear-president-trump-if-you-want-cut-healthcare-costs-stem-opiate-death-spiral-legal