Flying airplanes generates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. So, according to the global warming doomsayers we should endeavor to fly less. Indeed according to a recent article at Grist.org the Bishop of London has proclaimed that it is a sin to fly on holidays.
British supermarket chain Tesco has extended the logic to food. That is it's going to restrict the importation of air freighted goods by half and introduce a system of carbon counting labeling.
Al Gore should approve.
But farmers in Kenya who have developed produce to meet Tesco's previous environmental requirements are not so sure.
"What is global warming?", asks Samuel Mauthike, a small scale vegetable farmer in Kenya.
"Is it something caused by us in Africa?"
According to same story at BBC News, Kenyan Jane Ngige has commented, "One minute we are talking about fair trade and market compliance, the next this is less of an issue and the issue is lessening the carbon footprint of the developed world possibly by cutting markets in Africa".
Ah, the fickle nature of modern environmentalism!
'a shoddy second rate system they have had thrust upon them.' - Ian
Really Motty? so you claim democracy is a 'shoddy second rate system'? That must explain your fondness for ranting on about using the Yakuza to deal with anyone who opposes international commercial whaling... You should run for political office in Sicily....Don Motti has a certain ring to it..
"driven victims to suicide" - bolsh !
"employed by sleazy persecutors" - nope !
I think someone wants a gerrymander. Easier just to export Ian to Nauru. Would be simpler and far less costly.
Just think of all theose bush kids down making a living in town. And same for Ian when it suits him. What a great hypocrite of the highest order. Just more capitalising of gains and socialising of losses.
Thanks, Woody. It is actually the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence that is most illuminating. It lists the shortcommings of George III which, when I read out to Australian farmers, makes them realise that urban elected governments are doing much worse to them almost every day.
And when I explain to them that no farmer in any of the US farm states would tolerate having their lives run by the ill-informed voters of metropolitan Chicago or New York, they again realise what a shoddy second rate system they have had thrust upon them.
More importantly, few voters in Chicago would be so up themselves as to seriously believe they know what is best for farmers in the Dakotas. But here in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, almost every one of the ignorant f@#$%& thinks no rural issue can be properly resolved without the divine intervention of morons who spend the best part of their day with their nose up a trucks muffler.
But Luke has to respond that way. As if I would reveal plans for civil disobedience on a blog. He is, after all, employed by some of the sleaziest persecutors, some who have driven their victims to suicide.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' - Woody
Fine words, however not worth the paper they were written on; since those same... ahem.. 'patriots' then deliberately failed to abolish slavery upon achieving independance... to say nothing of pursueing a policy that amounted to genocide towards the First Nation tribes...
Not to mention that many of those 'patriots' (as major landowners) were actually loudly fulminating against British taxation; yet had not actually paid said taxes to the British government for its administration and military protection of British American colonies for years.....resulting in the need for more general taxes like that placed on tea to try to recoup the shortfall....
Perhaps Woody would like to entertain the readers with what happened to the level of American taxation after George Washington and his buddies liberated their fellow Americans (slaves and First Nation tribes not included) from the heavy yoke of George III's 'tyrannical' taxes?......
American politicians have always been a bunch of hypocrites..If its the home of the free and the land of the brave how come most of the braves are living on reservations?...
How true when Woody says he appreciates 'the prices that others have paid'.. However I very much doubt First Nation citizens feel the same way.....
Woody it's clear that nothing you say should be taken seriously....
The best weapon against revisionist historians is ridicule.....