Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>]

I've seen that Paul has given quite convincing evidence or global 
warming but I had the impression that the discussion was not about this 
so much as about government being funded and controlled by big 
corporations in doing it's worst to get rid of small sustainable 
enterprises.

I do begrudge agribusiness making huge profits because the externalities 
such as pollution to name but one of many side effects is passed on to 
small tax payers while the big corporation knows and is abetted by 
politicians in avoiding taxes.

I also regret that most of the controlling pressure is on small 
producers. One example : I had just 5 cattle tested this year for the 
compulsory TB test and that cost me about 36 euros per cow. If I had 500 
cattle to test the cost would be just 2 euros per cow.
Another example : there was a big salmonella scare in England some years 
ago. This brought the government into action and it was decided that 
from every place where there were chickens they would take 3 chickens 
per year without compensation to kill and test for the presence of 
salmonella.
This action stopped every place where they had just a few hens running 
around each one of them known by name by the owner. It meant less than 
nothing to big agribusiness that bred and disposed of millions of 
chickens very year. It wiped out competition from anyone selling just a 
few free range eggs and boosted the big concerns were salmonella was rife.

As to global warming...well, I think of myself as a scientist and I go 
to great pains to look at every aspect of a case and different opinions 
on same. I am completely convinced at this time that man made global 
warming is reality and about to get much worse since we are entering a 
period of positive feedback (ice free seawater absorbs a lot more solar 
energy than ice and snow).
And I have looked at all the reports of expanding sea ice at the poles 
and have come to the conclusion that this is a scam. The reports talking 
about this define sea ice covered water when just a 20 % of the surface 
is covered by ice. This means that the more the poles melt the more sea 
surface will be covered by small floating ice lumps (for now).

I would suggest that you study this particular conspiracy theory in 
debt. Once you have found out who gains for now from denial I'm sure 
that it will be easy to find a few conspiracy theories that are facts.

John


On 05/12/14 00:49, Salvatore Livreri DMD via Livingontheland wrote:
> I have been a long time lurker, but never posted.  I feel the need to chime 
> in.
>
> There are many who believe in sustainability as it pertains to 
> self-sufficiency.  Who among us does truly not romantically long for a return 
> of simpler times?  I, like many, dislike agribusiness and how corporations go 
> about making profits (although I do not begrudge them making a profit).
>
> However, there are some among us who do not buy into the global warming idea 
> (I stay away from calling it a hoax or scheme to avoid inflammatory 
> comments).  Bringing it up turns people off at best or causes them to 
> escalate the tone of the forum at worst.
>
> Perhaps we can avoid the topic or give REAL scientific evidence 
> (peer-reviewed) if we discuss it.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Dec 4, 2014, at 4:42 PM, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On 04/12/14 18:04, herb farmer wrote:
> > >
> > > If I could send out only one post, THIS would be the one.
> > > Paul
> > > -------------
> > > Reversing Global Warming, Hunger and Poverty: Supercharging the Global 
> > > Grassroots
> > Well, yes. This is immensely important but unfortunately there are 
> > governments everywhere and I have yet to see one of them them make one move 
> > in this direction. On the contrary rather.
> > Revolution?
> > John
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