Population and Food
October 27th 2011 00:51
Population and food
Isn’t it grand? Our world population will be SEVEN BILLION after the weekend is gone. How are we going to feed that many people ??? Certainly not by digging holes in good farming land to make a fat profit for some greedy wealthy sods who call themselves ‘investors’. Yes, coal seam gas mining is the topic once again. The general population is constantly being told a lot of ‘untruths’ about the effects of CSG mining. They say, as do the pollies who are in their pockets, agriculture and CSG can co-exist with benefits for both. WHAT RUBBISH!!!
CSG mines cut into the very heart of agriculture, they reduce the amount of land available for growing food quite severely for a start. Then, no one knows what damage they will do to the underground water supplies we depend on, nor do they have even the vaguest idea of how long any pollutants they pour into our soil will take to dilute enough to return our water back to somewhere close to what we now have.
Tony Abbot is quite happy to ‘Stop the boats’, ‘Stop the taxes’, and so forth, but sits on his hands and ignores one of the real big problems facing our country; namely the destruction of the land itself. Julia is no better; she also ignores the possibility that thousands of acres of viable agriculture will stop suddenly IF the Coal Seam Gas companies are not rigidly controlled.
Of course, the State Governments are contributors to the critical situation we now have; they promote coal and CSG exploration by subsidising the exploration with tax payers money, so I’m told.
WE pay for foreign Companies to foul up our land and the best return we can expect is a mere 10% paid in royalties to the relevant state government. Shame on the lot of you, you over paid political bludgers.
Consider what would really happen if CSG mining was banned tomorrow. Almost nothing. The overseas companies would all bellyache about lost jobs which never started, pollution that never eventuated, and profits that their shareholders never got. That last one is the only one important to the mining companies; profit. They don’t care if they stuff up thousands of acres of land for hundreds of years, they want a quick profit and then go rip off someone somewhere else.
Get on the backs of all your elected Politicians, State and Federal Govt, and tell them to leave the farming land to the farmers. Available land is shrinking fast enough with CSG and coal mining making the food growing situation even worse as the mines expand.
Isn’t it grand? Our world population will be SEVEN BILLION after the weekend is gone. How are we going to feed that many people ??? Certainly not by digging holes in good farming land to make a fat profit for some greedy wealthy sods who call themselves ‘investors’. Yes, coal seam gas mining is the topic once again. The general population is constantly being told a lot of ‘untruths’ about the effects of CSG mining. They say, as do the pollies who are in their pockets, agriculture and CSG can co-exist with benefits for both. WHAT RUBBISH!!!
CSG mines cut into the very heart of agriculture, they reduce the amount of land available for growing food quite severely for a start. Then, no one knows what damage they will do to the underground water supplies we depend on, nor do they have even the vaguest idea of how long any pollutants they pour into our soil will take to dilute enough to return our water back to somewhere close to what we now have.
Of course, the State Governments are contributors to the critical situation we now have; they promote coal and CSG exploration by subsidising the exploration with tax payers money, so I’m told.
WE pay for foreign Companies to foul up our land and the best return we can expect is a mere 10% paid in royalties to the relevant state government. Shame on the lot of you, you over paid political bludgers.
Get on the backs of all your elected Politicians, State and Federal Govt, and tell them to leave the farming land to the farmers. Available land is shrinking fast enough with CSG and coal mining making the food growing situation even worse as the mines expand.
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