By Viv
Forbes (Earth
Scientist, Grass Farmer, Sheep & Cattle Breeder, Australia) and
Dr Albrecht Glatzle (Agronomist
and grazier, Paraguay)
With assistance and support from:
Howard Crozier (Ex CSIRO Admin, Former Exec
Councillor NSW Farmers Association, Australia)
Robin
Grieve (Chairman
of Pastural Farming Climate Research, New Zealand)
Neil Henderson (Sheep and Cattle breeder, New
Zealand)
Jim Lents (Stud Hereford
Cattle Breeder, Oklahoma, USA)
Geoff
Maynard (Stud Senepol
Cattle Breeder, Queensland, Australia)
Don Nicolson (Former
President, Federated Farmers of New Zealand)
Pownall
Family (Fifth
generations graziers, Carfax Cattle Co, Qld, Australia.)
Petra Scholtz (Breeder
of Exotic Wildlife, South Africa)
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Keywords:
Grasslands, trees, grass, grazing, ruminants, livestock, methane, nitrogen, emissions,
wetlands, weeds, cattle, sheep, feedlot, pollution, biofuels, ethanol, carbon
credits, forestry, fire, parks, CCS, sequestration, food, fart tax, Mitchell
grass, landscapes.
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“The whole purpose of farming is to
convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
into useful products.”
Vincent
Gray
New Zealand Scientist and IPCC
Reviewer
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Summary
Grasslands, arable lands and the oceans provide all mankind with food and
fibre. But the productivity and health of our farms and livestock are under
threat from global warming alarmists and green preservationists.
It is
poor public policy that condones restrictions on grazing operations, or taxes
on grazing animals, based on disputed theories that claim that bodily emissions
from farm animals will cause dangerous global warming.
Ruminants
such as sheep, cattle and goats cannot make long-term additions to the gases in
the atmosphere - they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in
a cycle-of-life that has operated for millennia
Grazing
ruminant animals with their emission products have always been part of healthy
grasslands. Only when large numbers of animals are confined on the one patch of
land do pollution problems appear.
Many otherwise
genuine environmentalists are assisting the destruction of grasslands with their
native pastures and endangered grass birds. Blinded by their love for the
trees, they neglect the grasses, legumes, herbs and livestock that provide
their food. In Australia they pass laws to protect weedy eucalypts invading the
grasslands but ignore the valuable and declining Mitchell grass that once
dominated Australia’s treeless plains.
Grasslands
are also under threat from cultivation for biofuel crops, from subsidised carbon
credit forests and from the remorseless encroachment of fire-prone government
reserves and pest havens.
Trying
to control atmospheric gases with taxes is futile and anti-life. Even if carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere doubled, or more, the climate effect if any,
is probably beneficial (warmer at night and near the poles and with more moisture
in the atmosphere). More importantly, all life on Earth already benefits from the
additional CO2 plant nutrient in the atmosphere, and would benefit even more
were CO2 to double.
Nitrogen
is the most abundant natural gas in the atmosphere, inhaled in every breath and
an essential component of all protein. Grazing livestock merely recycle a few
compounds of nitrogen, all of which either return to the atmosphere or provide
valuable nitrogen fertilisers for the plants they graze on.
It is
a foolish and costly fantasy to believe that Earth’s climate can be controlled
by passing laws, imposing taxes, attempting to manipulate the bodily emissions
of farm animals or trying to prevent farmers from clearing woody weeds invading
their pastures.
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Our Farms and Grasslands are Precious
70%
of our blue planet is covered by oceans. Grasslands and arable land cover just
10% of Earth’s surface but produce most of our food and fibre. The remaining 20%
is land covered by desert, ice, mountains, forests, cities, roads, quarries,
swimming pools and mines which together produce almost no food for humans.
Plains, prairies, veldts and savannas with good soil and rainfall tend to be
cultivated for domesticated grasses and legumes such as wheat, corn, rice,
barley, oats, rye, lucerne and soy beans plus the giant grasses like sugar cane
and the fibre crop, cotton. Grasses and legumes, not trees, are the key food
resources for the world. (Even the lovable pandas rely on another giant grass,
bamboo.)
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“I saw very few tree species, but
every place was covered
with vast quantities of grass.”
Sir Joseph Banks, 1770
The first great English
botanist to visit Australia
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However,
the poorer grasslands are best utilised by grazing animals - cattle, sheep,
goats, deer and llamas. No other method can economically harvest sparse grassland
vegetation and convert it on site (using green energy) into edible protein and
fats, with by-products of wool, leather and fertiliser.
Mankind relies far more on native and cultivated grasslands and grazing
ruminants than on the trees, forests, wetlands and bio-fuel crops worshipped by
green urbanites.
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“Farmers and pastoralists have
delivered incredible animal efficiency gain. That
is, producing more with less inputs.
This achievement should be
applauded,
but is at risk because of
misguided green policies,
and that’s a travesty.”
Don Nicolson
Former President Federated
Farmers of New Zealand.
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The Destructive War on Carbon Dioxide
Farm animals are blamed for causing an increase
in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
If carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were
to double (as has happened in the past) two things are certain.
First, there would still be argument as to
whether the increased carbon dioxide had caused any harmful effect on climate. If
there was any detectable increase in average world temperature, it would be experienced
as benign changes such as warmer nights and more temperate climate near the
poles – both probably beneficial.
And second, there would be obvious other benefits
for all life on Earth - more growth of all plants and more food for all
animals.
The War on Livestock
A report in “The World Watch Institute” (WWI) claims
that livestock account for “at least 51%” of annual worldwide “greenhouse gas”
emissions. The authors conclude that replacing livestock products with soy and
other products would be the best strategy for reversing climate change.
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“The notion that half of our
emissions comes from livestock occurs only
by using accounting methods
that would see the directors in jail
if these methods were employed
in a capital-raising prospectus.”
Neil
Henderson
Sheep and Cattle Breeder, New Zealand
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Australia’s Ross Garnaut, an economist, is even
more far-out - he thinks Aussies should graze kangaroos, not cattle and sheep:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7645969.stm
(He has not heard that kangaroos, like cattle and sheep,
use bacteria to digest fibrous plant material by fermentation, chew their cud,
and probably create similar gaseous emissions.)
Moreover,
the WWI figures are wrong and ignore ecosystem functions and nutrient cycling. And
even the more moderate Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) systematically overstate the man-made part of
the emissions because they omit to subtract the sometimes considerable baseline
emissions from the pre-agricultural native ecosystems.
If Green Politicians had their way, sheep,
cattle and introduced grasses would be removed from the grasslands and replaced
by kangaroos and dingos, bison and wolves, wildebeests and lions, scrubby
forest and feral animals. They would lock up grazing lands, ban the occasional fires
that cleanse weeds and rejuvenate grass, and outlaw attempts to control
invasive woody weeds. This would have two effects: first, to slash food
production and depopulate rural areas; second, to increase wildfire risk and
encourage the spread of feral animals and weeds.
Livestock and Methane
Methane is a natural gas produced by many life
forms and it also seeps naturally from marshes, oceans, tundras, oil seeps and
coal seams. None of these natural sources can be measured, but livestock are wrongfully
singled out as the main offenders. Unmeasured methane also seeps out of the
growing city landfills and from leaky natural gas pipelines.
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“High methane content in the
atmosphere does not correlate with high livestock
concentrations. Strong emitters seem to be wetlands in Siberia, humid tropical forests and rice paddy fields in
China. Livestock emissions are totally
dwarfed by methane leaching from the massive clathrate deposits below the permafrost in Siberia, on continental
shelves and in the deep ocean. Earthquakes
and submarine volcanism can disturb and suddenly release methane from clathrates.”
Dr
Albrecht Glatzle,
Agronomist and Cattle Rancher,
Paraguay.
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Paradoxically, Greens also want to protect,
enhance and enlarge wetlands that generate copious quantities of marsh gas,
otherwise known as methane - that dreaded gas that attracts condemnation when
emitted by ruminants.
Methane is supposedly far more effective than
CO2 as a “greenhouse gas” (between 20 and 100 times, depending what you read). But
methane can absorb incoming solar radiation as well as outgoing IR from Earth, thus
reducing its claimed warming effect by day. Moreover, the radiative warming potential
of methane is largely masked by water vapour. Also, methane is lighter than air
and it rises quickly, thus transporting and radiating much of its heat to
space. It soon oxidises harmlessly in the upper atmosphere where each molecule
of methane produces JUST ONE molecule of CO2 (not 20-100), and two molecules of
that other dreadful “greenhouse gas”, water vapour.
Volcanic eruptions can have a large effect on
methane in the atmosphere. There were four large eruptions in the 20th
century. “Analysis shows that Mt Pinatubo created
a pulse of some 26Mt of methane in 1991” (Tom Quirk, 2010).
Massive herds of ruminants have roamed the
grasslands since the last ice age.
Methane from modern ruminants is a non-problem.
Livestock, Nitrogen and Pollution
As Green activists lose the livestock battles
on carbon dioxide and methane, a new livestock “problem” arrives - “nitrogen”.
Nitrogen is the most abundant atmospheric gas,
making up 78% of the atmosphere.
It is true that ruminant (and human) urine and
faeces contain compounds of nitrogen, and in another bit of nature’s
serendipity, most soils contain less nitrogen than plants would like, so the
foraging ruminants fertilise the pasture as they pass. Any nitrous oxide gas
that directly enters the atmosphere gets oxidised by ozone to form
water-soluble nitrogen dioxide which is washed out by rain to spread valuable
fertiliser over large areas of land.
All livestock “waste” is plant food.
However, there can always be too much of a good
thing. If animals (or humans) are confined in feedlots producing large amounts
of waste on a small area of land there will be pollution unless these “wastes”
are treated to produce valuable fertiliser and applied lightly and sensibly to
the land. City pollution has certainly killed people, but no one has been
killed by emissions from freely grazing ruminants.
Natural grasslands and well-run grass farms try
to mimic the operations of the massive herds of wild ruminants. The
concentrated herds are used in rotation to prune the grass, spread fertiliser
and seeds, break any hard soil crusts with animal impact, and then move on,
allowing the grass to recover.
Trees are Invading our Grasslands
Most natural grasslands were treeless or nearly
so.
However, some landowners have been bribed to encumber
their land with a growing green liability - the carbon credit forests. They
have signed contracts with carbon farming entrepreneurs to plant and maintain
forests of trees on the promise of generous “carbon credit” payments for the
carbon being stored in the trees as they grow. But they can never clear these
trees without triggering a liability.
All such schemes, being supported only by the
promises of politicians, are doomed to failure. Some have already collapsed,
leaving the gullible landowners with another liability - a thicket of woody
weeds filled with wild dogs, wild pigs and feral cattle too smart to be mustered
out of the thickening scrub. Farmers who choose to integrate a forestry
enterprise with their grazing activities (without subsidies or mandates),
should be free to do so - such activities can profitably benefit the health of
the trees, grasses and animals. But the pointless and costly mandating or
subsidising of carbon forests must stop.
Greens have also ensured that the ever-expanding
national parks and reserves have become a danger and liability to their grazing
neighbours. The lock-out of grazing animals, the slaughter of wild brumbies,
buffalo and camels, the fire restrictions, and the banning of sporting shooters
have filled many national parks with feral pests and a tinder-box of weedy
rubbish just waiting for a lightning strike, a bonfire or an arsonist to start an
un-controllable wild-fire.
Should Carbon Dioxide be Buried?
Livestock Capture Carbon
There are some extremists with such a morbid
fear of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that they want to extract it and bury
it deep in the Earth, as if it were radioactive waste. For example:
Most of the grass in grasslands is either eaten
by grazing animals or removed by fire - some decays and becomes humus. Fire
immediately pours the carbon dioxide from burning plants (plus smoke, ash, soot
and charcoal) back to the atmosphere and soil whereas cattle and sheep capture
and store much of it.
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“Cows are nature’s carbon capture
technology as well as a cheap source of protein
for the world.”
See: https://youtu.be/q_BD5FApHKc
- (NB Watch this short clip)
Geoff
Maynard
Australian cattleman &
Director of MLA (Meat and Livestock Australia).
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Greens promote trees over grasslands and
grazing animals as a method of “sequestering carbon”. However, unless mature
trees are continually logged and turned into long-life timber or furniture, they
eventually die, decay or are burnt, thus returning their carbon to the
atmosphere. The forest inevitably reaches a state where there is zero net
capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere.
In grassland grazing, mature grazing animals
are methodically mustered and removed from the land, to be turned into food
supplies for expanding populations. Much of this carbon in cattle and sheep
ends up in long-life repositories like leather, bones, humus or in the bodies
of humans who eat the meat and then, in the long run, are sealed in coffins and
buried.
The great Australian bush singer, Tex Morton,
says it all:
“Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket
And bury me deep down below
Where the dingos and crows can’t
molest me
In the shade where the coolibahs
grow”
Once again greens have got it “Bass Ackwards”
(to steal a phrase from the great Dr Howard Hayden) - grazed grasslands are
more sustainable than unlogged forests if you want to sequester carbon.
The Carbon Cycle of Life
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the ultimate
source for the carbon in all plants and animals. Every blade of native pasture
and every ear of cultivated corn are composed of various compounds of carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and minerals, all extracted from air, soil and water.
In the long run, every atom of carbon in these plants originates from carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere. Because it is only present in trace quantities,
carbon dioxide is often the limiting plant growth factor (at mid-day over a
field of growing corn, CO2 is so reduced in the air above the crop that plant
life starts starving).
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/plants-suck-half-the-co2-out-of-the-air-around-them-before-lunchtime-each-day/
Every landscape, natural or managed, is subject
to digestion and decomposition processes which result in returning carbon
(usually CO2 with some methane) and nitrogen to the atmosphere. Grazing livestock
have always been part of this natural cycle.
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“Cows and caribou, sheep and
springboks are not alchemists -
they cannot create carbon or nitrogen out of
nothing.
“Every atom of these elements
in livestock emissions can only have come from
the grass they eat or the air they breathe.
This natural cycle of life is
a zero sum game.”
Viv
Forbes
Earth Scientist, Grass Farmer,
Sheep and Cattle Breeder, Australia
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When native grasses, legumes, herbs and their
seeds are eaten by grazing ruminants every atom of carbon and nitrogen they
absorb from the fodder goes to build meat, milk, fat, hair, wool, leather,
horns and bone, or it is returned to the biosphere via emissions such as
respiration, and digestive functions that produce burps, farts, urine or
manure.
This carbon/nitrogen extraction process starts
the day the animal is conceived and ceases on the day it dies. It is the cycle of
life.
Ethanol Roulette - Food or Fuel?
When a cultivated grass like corn is harvested
and fermented to create ethyl alcohol, this is either consumed as an alcoholic
drink or burnt as motor fuel. Eventually every atom of carbon is returned to
the atmosphere in emission products via the production and consumption of the
alcohol, or via the burning or natural decomposition of waste products.
In both cases the agricultural part of the carbon
cycle is a zero sum game. Plants grow by harvesting carbon, nitrogen, moisture
and minerals using solar energy. Seeds and plants are then consumed by animals,
humans or motor vehicles, and sooner or later, the carbon returns to the
atmosphere via emissions. If cattle and sheep are to be taxed, so should motor vehicles
running on ethanol.
There is no justification for subsidising
farmers to destroy grasslands, farms or forests with ethanol or bio-diesel mono-cultures
of corn, beets or palm oil.
The Laughable Livestock Fart Tax
New Zealand was the first country to propose a “livestock
fart tax”. Kiwi farmers organised a petition of objectors which attracted
64,000 signatures. Four hundred farmers then drove 20 tractors to the
Parliament in Wellington waving placards and banners saying “STOP THE FART
TAX”.
Grassland grazing operations using stockmen,
drovers and dogs for mustering and moving animals produce a ZERO net increase
in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In fact all farm animals merit a carbon
credit, because they provide medium to long-term sequestration of part of the
carbon extracted from the air in bones, meat, milk, wool, leather and humus.
Naturally, where quad bikes, utilities, helicopters,
road trains and diesel-driven water pumps have replaced horses and wind mills,
the mustering, transport and processing needed to put grassland meat onto the
plates of city consumers use hydrocarbon fuels. But the grazing animals still
use grass power.
Changing Landscapes
The type and quantity of vegetation covering
any area of land depends on the geology, topography, climate, soil, fire regime
and grazing pressure.
Plains and gentle hills, in climates with a
pronounced wet and dry season, and subject to nomadic grazing and periodic
patchwork fires produced the grasslands. But nature never stands still. A
change in any of these factors will cause the vegetation to change.
Pioneer graziers recognised these factors, and
their fire and grazing management reflected them.
Of course, poor grazing managers who overstock
their land, have insufficient water points, poorly designed fences, clear steep
slopes, burn off too often and do not spell their pastures will cause land
degradation and erosion.
It is amazing that most organisations
supposedly representing farmers and graziers cannot acknowledge the beneficial
effect of grazing livestock on the biosphere.
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“Twenty years ago I opposed
the idea that a levy on livestock emissions may help the climate. I also opposed the preservation of useless
native vegetation at the expense of grazing
cattle and sheep.
Unfortunately, this long battle
continues.”
Howard
Crozier BA Hons, OAM, Australia
Retired from: CSIRO Admin,
Farmer, Local Government &
Executive Councillor NSW
Farmers Association
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All attempts to tax and penalise domestic
ruminants for their natural emissions must be exposed as fraud and opposed,
especially when emissions from forests, termites, wetlands, wild ruminant herds
and mega-cities are persistently disregarded.
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“Man-made global warming
resulting in climate change
is the hoax to end all
hoaxes.” Jim Lents
Stud Hereford Breeder, Oklahoma,
USA
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Time to Protect the Grasslands
Grasslands have been a natural feature of every
continent (except Antarctica) for thousands of years, existing in harmony with
grazing ruminants (often in massive herds), predators, indigenous hunters and
the periodic bushfires.
Now we have Green armies “protecting” trees and
forests, pandas and polar bears, wolves and dingoes, but who is looking after
the native grasses and legumes of the grasslands, the Prairies, the Pampas and
the Veldt? And who is conserving the valuable genes of ancient breeds of
cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, wild horses and camels?
Note:
Petra Scholtz, from South Africa, who signed this report, is an active member
of WRSA (Wildlife Ranching SA) and breeds and conserves exotic wildlife
including sable and roan antelope and white rhinos. He also promotes Damara
sheep (one of the oldest sheep breeds in existence); the chief author of this
report, Viv Forbes of Australia, with his wife Judy, manage Australia’s oldest
Damara stud on natural pastures; and Jim Lents, along with his late father Joe
from Oklahoma USA, have for the past 73 years conserved and perpetuated the
pure genetics of British Hereford cattle which were imported to USA via Canada
in 1876 and 1877, and from Britain in 1880, 1881 and 1882.
The Grassy Plains of
Queensland, Australia, in the 1860’s
Richard Daintree was
a, scientist, explorer, pastoralist, miner and historian. He spent much time
in the years 1860 – 1876 exploring, photographing and promoting Queensland. A
large collection of Daintree’s photographs is held in the Queensland Museum,
and some were published by the Queensland Museum in 1977 in “Queensland in
the 1860’s – the Photography of Richard Daintree”, by Ian G Sanker.
Here is a picture
taken by Daintree, in the Richmond area - not a tree to be seen. Daintree
wrote about the vast soil-covered plains: “The resulting physical aspect is
that of vast plains which form the principal feature of Queensland scenery
west of the main dividing range”. He described them as first class pastoral
country totalling about one third of the area of Queensland.
“Having destroyed much of the coastal
forests and scrubs, coastal dwellers are now destroying the
open forests and grasslands by locking up the land or preventing any form of
regrowth control.”
Viv Forbes
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Some Observations on the Treeless Grasslands of Northern Australia.
A young couple were married in Brisbane in October 1926 and decided to
spend their honeymoon driving around Australia. In many places there was no
road - just droving tracks.
Alone and driving an Overland Whippet car they started from Brisbane on
2nd October 1926; drove through central Queensland to Mt Is; then via Camooweal
to Darwin; then to Fitzroy River in WA, on to the Ninety Mile Beach, Marble
Bar, Meekatharra to Perth; then across the Nullabor Plain (“Nullabor” means “no
trees”) to Adelaide, round the coast to Melbourne, thence via Sydney back to
Brisbane. They were welcomed back to Brisbane by a large army of cars at “Eight
Mile Plains” on 27th March 1927.
The bride, Muriel Dorney (a school teacher), kept a detailed diary of the trip,
took photos with a “Box Brownie” camera and wrote a fascinating small book
called “An Adventurous Honeymoon the First Motor Honeymoon around Australia.” It
was published in Brisbane by the Read Press Ltd
She made the following observations on the grasslands and weather of
northern Australia:
P13. “At Morven 427 miles from Brisbane … we turned north to Augathella. We
were now on open plains which, as a rule, are covered with beautiful Mitchell
grass.” (There is a picture of “The
Black Soil Plains of Western Queensland” and there is not a
tree in sight.)
P21. “The night after leaving Maxwellton, we camped on a treeless plain.”
There was no wood for a camp fire.
P28. “I had always pictured the Northern Territory as a kind of desert waste.
How surprised I was to find such a beautiful country. Much of it fine black
soil covered with Mitchell grass … the heat is intense on the treeless plains”.
P30. Mid-way between Avon
Downs and Alexandria Station is the Rankine River store. “There was such a strong wind blowing and not a stick of timber on the
plain so we stayed for dinner” (roast goat).
P30. “From the Rankine River store we passed over the Rankine Plain, which
was a black soil plain covered with Mitchell Grass. It was thirty miles wide
and if I remember rightly, we did not see a single tree.”
P40. “After leaving Brunette Downs (NT) we found ourselves still travelling
over black soil plains covered with Mitchell grass … strangely we saw
practically no kangaroos or dingoes on the Barkly Tablelands.”
P44. “From Anthony’s Lagoon it is 180 miles to Newcastle Waters, mainly over
black soil plains. . . . when we arrived
at Anthony’s Lagoon, the temperature was 115 degrees (46 deg C) in the shade.”
P48. “For the first hundred miles from Anthony’s Lagoon we went over an
almost treeless plain. After that we began to find alternate patches of plain
and desert … with a line of trees marking the beginning of the desert.”
P49. “Soon after leaving Daly Waters, we went across another black soil plain
. . . . that afternoon reached a temperature of 129 degrees (54 deg C) in the
shade in the (open-sided) car.”
P52. “The Australian aborigines ... make fire by rubbing two sticks together
… Once they have a fire they endeavour to keep it alight and often carry a fire
stick about when moving camp.”
P104, on Wave Hill Station NT. “From here to Inverway (the next station) the patches of desert were
interspersed with the black soil plains.”
P105, Wallamunga Creek, NT. “there were only a few trees near the water hole … but thousands of
ducks in the water and on the banks.”
P128, Fitzroy River, WA. “The Fitzroy drains an area of something like fifty thousand square miles.
The surrounding country is so flat that in some places the flood extends as far
as sixty miles on either side of the river.”
P136, Christmas Creek, WA. “We encountered miles and miles of spinifex flats ….”
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And the Kansas Plains
“Have you ever seen those Kansas
plains? Have you seen the grass stretch away from you to the horizon? Grass and
nothing but grass except for flowers here and there and maybe the white of
buffalo bones, but grass moving gentle under the long wind, moving like a
restless sea with the hand of God upon it.”
From “The Day Breakers”
1972, p5 by Louis L’Amour, a novelist, journalist, lecturer and historian of
the settlement of the American west. He lived and travelled this land, was a
voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained
17,000 books.
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But grasslands are now threatened by government
bans on clearing woody weeds, by the cultivation of grasslands for biofuel
mono-culture and by the remorseless encroachment of government reserves and
pest havens.
See:
Destructive Green Land Policies:
http://carbon-sense.com/2013/02/15/destructive-green-policies/
The Clexit (Climate Exit) Coalition has formed
a “Grasslands Protection Group” to contest the baseless attacks by UN-supported
climate alarmists, livestock critics and tree worshippers on grazing ruminants
and the grasslands that support them. Clexit recognises that this war on
livestock and farming is just part of the UN war on western capitalism and the
green war on the human race.
We cannot rely on individual governments or
politicians to fight this battle – they are so intimidated or corrupted by the
giant dollar power of things like the UN’s $10 billion (and rising) Green
Climate Fund. They will never bite the hand that feeds them.
And the drumbeat never ceases:
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“Time is running out for
agriculture to contribute to
meeting global climate targets.”
Juergen Voegele
World Bank Director of
Agriculture and Environmental Services
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The Clexit Grasslands Protection Group will work
with other rational organisations to combat and oppose the destruction of our
grasslands and the livelihood of the pastoralists, graziers and ranchers harvesting
them.
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“The optimal way to deal with
potential climate change
is not to strive to prevent it
(a useless activity in any case)
but to promote growth and
prosperity
so that the people will have
the resources to deal with any shift”.
Thomas G Moore 1995 “Global Warming
– a Boon to Humans and other animals”
Hoover Institution, Stanford
University 1995.
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The Clexit Grassland Protection Group is
represented and supported by:
Viv
& Judy Forbes Sheep and
cattle breeders, Qld, Australia
Albrecht & Eva-Maria Glatzle Cattle
graziers, Paraguay, South America
Howard Crozier Former
Exec Councillor NSW Farmers Assoc
Robin Grieve Chairman,
Pastural Farming Climate Research,
New
Zealand, http://www.farmcarbon.co.nz/
Neil & Esther Henderson Sheep
and cattle farmers, New Zealand
Jim and Nancy Lents Anxiety
Herefords, Oklahoma, USA
Don Nicolson Former
President
Federated
Farmers of New Zealand.
Pownall Family Fifth
generations graziers on
Carfax
Cattle Co, Australia.
Petra Scholtz Wildlife breeder,
South Africa
Further
Reading:
