I think that is a very unbalanced portrayal of the situation Peter. You suggest the Council’s view is “freshwater quality comes before people”. At the end you somewhat begrudgingly acknowledge “clean water is important and we can’t survive without it.” A little reading about Flint, Michigan will make that point abundantly clear.
Now the Council may be OTT on the matter. I don’t know enough to comment. But if, as you say, “there must be a better way to improve the health of Northland’s waterways” then I think it would be great if you put it forward and advocated for it. A compromise between “hardworking” farmer’s needs and a healthy environment, other than “scruffy” trees, may well appeal to all involved. It would to me.
And I’ve not yet met this “real world where people matter more than anything else”. That’s an ideological dream world. My octogeneric experience leads me to believe that the reality is that profits rule the roost.
The one way we can establish whether reducing water contamination is genuinely a concern for governments is investigating how they have repeatedly poisoned our drinking water catchments with the tetrogenic poison 1080 for 65 years.
Agreed. There must be a balance of productive farming and water care. No farmer wishes to pollute or harm fresh water.
I think that is a very unbalanced portrayal of the situation Peter. You suggest the Council’s view is “freshwater quality comes before people”. At the end you somewhat begrudgingly acknowledge “clean water is important and we can’t survive without it.” A little reading about Flint, Michigan will make that point abundantly clear.
Now the Council may be OTT on the matter. I don’t know enough to comment. But if, as you say, “there must be a better way to improve the health of Northland’s waterways” then I think it would be great if you put it forward and advocated for it. A compromise between “hardworking” farmer’s needs and a healthy environment, other than “scruffy” trees, may well appeal to all involved. It would to me.
And I’ve not yet met this “real world where people matter more than anything else”. That’s an ideological dream world. My octogeneric experience leads me to believe that the reality is that profits rule the roost.
The one way we can establish whether reducing water contamination is genuinely a concern for governments is investigating how they have repeatedly poisoned our drinking water catchments with the tetrogenic poison 1080 for 65 years.