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worms! (book recommendation)
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
... that's it. along with the oddball opinions, it creates doubt in one's mind. I must admit that I don't mind oddball opinions if it's not opinions being foisted on me by politicians who actually have to power to impact on my life. I might argue strongly against them but I find that they make me think about why I don't like them so I think they are often a good brain tester. i should probably rephrase that, as i don't mind oddball opinions either in fact. well, i'm sure i object to some of them. what i object to is oddball bits within an otherwise non-oddball system of belief/thought/argument. e.g.: there's nothing oddball about espousing ripping systems to regenerate soil and doing various things to promote soil health nor the idea that soil health is the key to saving us all. BUT, if within that system of thought the yeomans are _also_ espousing nuclear energy as part of the system when we all know it cannot be made economic for 30- 50 years; advocating broad-scale clearing (because they've decided carbon sequestration into soil, rather than or as well as trees is the key); and making bizarre claims such as that nuclear waste has a 90% breakdown within 50 years when no other person (e.g. nuclear scientists) say any such thing (even most plastics don't break down that fast!). the first example makes no sense - it's totally uneconomic; any benefit would simply be too slow and any potential advantage is tainted by the question of what to do with the waste (obviously "we" can't just "put it in the titanic"). the second example is daft because even if carbon sequestration into soil is "better" than into trees, trees clearly have many other uses other than as carbon sinks. and afaik, the third claim is simply wrong. i could give other examples but i'm concerned i'm just whingeing :-) the whacko booklet is quite recent but is already out of date, that would be one problem (e.g. no mention of geothermal energy). so yeah, people can be oddball & that's fine, but if they're promoting a system, the whole system has to be consistent & logical on its own terms. In agricultural terms I think it was new to this country and given that they also export to the US, I think they were certainly there in the earliest of days. If you read the Yeoman's books you'll se what I mean. I know there are at least some chapters available online if not the whole of the first book. Yeomans was the equivalent of the Peter Andrews (of natural sequence farming fame) of his day. mm, but ripping-without-turning was/is entirely promoted in australia by the permies, i thought(?) not to put too fine a point on it, the yeomans are pretty obscure. if they stuck to their part (making machinery for those types of ends) without telling everyone to chop down trees and go nuclear & that there's "no point" in anyone saving energy(!), maybe things would be different! (similar to my gripe about the biodynamic set ;-) I actually don't find Costello creepy at all. i find his love affair with those hillsong snots to be very, very creepy and dubious. other than that, and most of his politics and policies, i don't have a problem with him :-) The real problem for many pollies is that they are very differnt in the flesh than they appear on the box or in the 10 second grabs on the radio. He is a very decent human being (with that good sense of humour you mentioned) and I could cope with the Libs being in govt if he was at the helm i'd prefer it, to tell you the truth. i think that moment came last year, was not taken up, & there's going to be a few people sorry that it didn't happen. (except I do have some concerns given that he was the legal eagle involved in the infamous Dollar Sweets court case). He isn't up himself like some. I also like Bronwyn Bishop. Pity she gets such undeserved bad press - she actually has a conscience. i think she's a bitch from hell who also plays the man but not the ball in a humourless evil way, but then again i rather like amanda vanstone for her forthrightness, which makes people fall off their chairs sometimes when i say that :-) Its the cutting bit. Probably best to show you a pic so look at: http://www.unibar.com.au/products/ag/ub44-900.html It's the round discs in front of the shanks. heavens, i thought those were wheels of some kind. Thanks for the offer but since I've already asked them for it, I'm probably in the system somewhere - I mailed them so I might just have to do as you did and go online if it's not here in a couple of days. have a moan at them about their terrible spelling - it makes them sit up & take notice ;-) kylie |
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