Ranting, Out gassing and being fracked off

Are the floods caused by global warming?
Are the fires caused by global warming?
Isn't it interesting how quickly shit hits the fan.
The floods wiped out citrus groves, piggeries, beef farms, grain growers. Not to mention millions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the affected regions.
What will happen to the cost of food?
The cost of Insurance?
With billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in regions susceptible to floods and fires wheres the money going to come from to fix or move these necessary buildings, roads, airports, hospitals, schools?
It's time the mining tax incorporated the full cost of the products they peddle.
Isn't it time we stopped buying crap and invested in our own homes and communities. Solar and wind power are logical power sources for the future.
Growing your own food for yourself and the community you live in is a logical choice.
Becoming a banker, stockbroker, investment analyst or mining executive makes you part of the problem.
We have all the knowledge, capabilities and financial ability to transform our nation into a world leader in a sustainable future.
Why don't we do it?
Because our leaders keep pandering to the corporations that peddle the products that are destroying our living environment.
Out of all the corporations I can think of none sell a 100% ethical or sustainable product.
Solution: Don't buy their products. Of course we need computers, we just don't need to upgrade every 12 months. Of course we need clothes. Buy locally made or better still make your own or buy second hand.
By the way I'm as guilty as anyone of occasional overconsumption.
Did you know that the water off WA's coast was so unusually warm lately that tasmanian fisherman reported catching fish never seen that far south before.
The permafrost is melting so fast that scientists now doubt we will avoid an irreversible feedback loop.
Land clearing in the amazon shows no sign of abating
We cut down untouched forests in Borneo to grow palm oil, to fry food in, make cosmetics and generally make things we could easily do without.
Farmers in India are committing suicide at ever increasing rates because companies such as Monsanto patent their seeds and force them to go deep into debt to grow crops that need spraying and have ever decreasing strike rates.
Farms in the States are reporting the proliferation of superweeds in farming areas as a result of using round up ready seeds to grow crops.
Nature supplied us with a brilliant way to grow food we just forgot to listen.
Companies such as Red Bull spend billions promoting a product that offers absolutely no benefit to mankind yet the founder is seen as a business genius. Go Figure
Walmart pays its full time workers below the poverty line and threatens dismissal if they complain. Yet millions of people shop there.
Have a Great day
Russ

Stonefruit, Pears and coal mines

With Christmas over and NYE celebrations finished its probably time for most of us to have a good cleansing full body enema. Thankfully for me I've decided to keep eating a little extra and drinking beer for a bit longer yet.
For those keen on the idea wait till next spring as cleansing in the peak of summer is not the best idea. Fasting involves cutting out the sugars and with stonefruits abundant, berries pouring in and now the new season pears arriving cutting out sugar at the moment is not an option. Wait till spring when the apples are tired and the stonefruit hasn't arrived. Basically follow nature's lead.
Biodynamic white peaches from the Strathbogies have arrived and they are no doubt up there with the worlds best peaches. Sweet, juicy and peachy they literally explode in your mouth.
The other meal to eat during summer is the salad. Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, capsicum, beetroot, avocado, carrots and herbs are all plentiful and in any combination are a great way to eat when it's hot.

In the world around us we have Mark Vaille, Former leader of The National party, now the CEO of Whitehaven Coal. Thanks to a cheeky protester and a ridiculously lax media, a report circulated that their bank had withdrawn funds from their coal project. This led to a wipeout of $314 million from the share value. This alone raises the absurdly sensitive nature of the share market and how a piece of unchecked paper can cause such a wipeout. No doubt the very same people complaining about the hoax were buying the stock as it went down, all the while "sobbing" for the "mum and dad" investors. Personally if you invest in coal mines in this day and age you deserve to lose your money. And by "mum and dad" investors doesn't Mark mean huge corporate superfunds who invest mum and dads super all the while taking a slice here and a slice there to line their own pockets. Please, give us a break. Next we have Mark Vaille call the hoaxer "un-Australian" Seriously Mark, get your hand off it. Surely being cheeky and sticking it up the establishment is very "Australian" Or has it now become illegal to protest in this country. In fact Mr. Vaille if you told the truth about this project the outcry would increase in volume.
According to Economics at large, a public interest economics group the project is every bit as dubious and polluting as so many other mining projects that go on in the name of "the economy" As for the "happy" people living in Maules Creek. The idea of breathing coal dust, polluting the aquifer and then selling last centuries power source to developing nations hardly makes them happy.
Anyway read this article for a more balanced report, I tend to rant when people with too much power and not enough brains talk so much dribble.  
Did I mention the white peaches?
Russ