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John Morgan writes
Spot on, Jim. We_should_, indeed we must, pay farmers for good stewardship, raising some of the money in the form of fines levied on those who practise bad stewardship. The problem with this is defining 'good stweardship'. One man's 'good stewardship' is another mans 'bad'. For example a conventional farmer might reasonably say that organic farming is bad stewardship and vice-versa. Both might object to reversion to the wild, but ecologists might consider it good. Whether its good or bad depends greatly on what you strive to achieve and even what you actually achieve (which may not be intentional). As I'm sure you're aware, it's not your land you are farming, it belongs to your children and mine. Er, no, actually it belongs to Jim. It belongs to anyone else about as much as your house belongs to someone else. Jim may, or may not, run it with children in mind (or even the rest of the population), but that's another matter. I've got my cheque book ready! How much do you need? Of course given appropriate funding one's aims might change. But that's quite another matter too. No realistic amount of money would make me plant any more trees, for example. Simply because once planted they can in effect never be removed due to legislation. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. BTOPENWORLD address about to cease. DEMON address no longer in use. Use still functions. |
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