Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Michael Heaver"
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We DO need to evolve away from petro-chemical farming. It's not good for the soil, the food, or our health. The mineralic content of broccoli, for instance, is a tiny fraction of what it was 100 years ago.
But let informed consumers and clever farmers get there in the natural course of things. Don't burn it down before you've built new ways.
All government knows is FORCE. The reason we farm the way we do is BECAUSE government forced things in that direction, without concern for the consequences. Now they decide to pivot because "catastrophic climate change" is their new religion, and they again force things in one direction, without regard for consequences.
Let the markets work. Thoughtful people want the food on their tables grown locally, and they don't trust bureaucrats to decide for them what is good, nutritious and safe. They don't know and they don't care. They only care about their jobs within the bureaucracy and are incentivized to push whatever favors the biggest companies, and the bureaucrats go from working in government to working for the biggest companies.
Fuel and fertilizer prices will rise naturally over time, and locally-grown will be increasingly profitable over time. Farmers, left to their own devices, with no one to please but their customers and themselves, are the best stewards of the land. They understand how to build healthy soil and maintain it. But they can't operate that way because of bureaucrats.
I'm an American, and I have zero trust in the Dept of Agriculture. They serve the corporate lobbyists and themselves. I don't want a stuffed shirt, future corporate employee working for the government deciding what "organic" means. What "safe" means. I want the nitrates and nitrites out of my bacon!
I do think agriculture needs to evolve. But not by edict from self-interested parties angling for campaign contributions.
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Fracking, clean coal, atomic, .... If British are going to be cold this winter, their leadership has proven their incompetence. If your plan means everyone except the elites must suffer, come up with a better plan. Leaders have gotten way ahead of ground-level realities in their Quixotic quest for a green future. There are already forces at work pushing people towards better ways of living. But people who aren't prosperous can't as easily achieve those better ways. People who are cold will burn every tree on the landscape and every stick of furniture to stay warm. Is that better than clean natural gas?
You want to help the planet, USE that CO2 in the atmosphere to boost plantings on the edges of the desert. A lot could be done to green things up, the direct way. Burn some fuel to carve swales in the landscape and hold water on the ground, better. Get some trees up and baby them. Get those trees going and the ground holds on to the water, better. Reclaiming deserts is well within our grasp. Much better for young people to volunteer for stuff like that, than waste their time waving signs and being offended. Spend some days outdoors, around green and growing things, and all that city drama and "Who am I?" nonsense vanishes. The buds on the apple trees are MUCH more interesting than existential angst.
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Depends on how you define left and right. In modern (messed-up) terminology, they're ALL leftists. They're just arguing over what flavor of socialism they will pursue: internationalist or nationalist.
By MY definition, socialism is just re-branded feudalism, where the elites rule over an obedient population that they throw crumbs to, every once in awhile, while bragging what good care they take of the people, who are nothing more than property of the state.
"See how well-cared-for our slaves are?" That's the left. Back in the old days, "left" meant you were tired of being bossed around by elites and you wanted limited government. Now, "left" means you want government education, welfare, media, and health. The tripod on which all good fascist/socialist governments rest, and through which they obtain ready agreement to whatever Message they're peddling.
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