Sustainable Farming - the Impossible Dream
By Viv Forbes
"To be truly 'sustainable', a farm must
recycle everything - otherwise it is depleting its soil minerals. Therefore it
cannot sell any of its produce. This means it cannot buy items from the outside
world, such as machinery, to make labour less arduous, and to produce more
food. It is thus an impossible dream." - Bob
Long
The man-made global warming crisis has gone cold,
the "man-made extreme weather" scares are wearing thin, and people
are waking up to the "tax war on carbon", so a new theme is needed
for handing control of our lives, businesses and property to the world
bureaucracy. The theme for the next green alarm is "sustainability"
and a favourite target is "sustainable farming".
We need to recognise some realities. Modern cities
are not sustainable without farms, and modern farms are not sustainable without
modern machinery, mineral fertilisers and affordable energy.
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