Posts by Lilith __
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But it is worth noting that without the dairy industry we would be royally F’d. Without the dairy industry we couldn’t afford the health system, or welfare, or much of anything. The dairy industry for all it’s faults is the difference between our current reasonable lifestyle and real depression.
This is a totally false dichotomy. Nobody is suggesting we outlaw dairying! Just that as an industry it must pay the real costs of its operation, and not rely on the rest of us to prop it up, directly or indirectly. Corporate welfare indeed.
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Bart Janssen,
regulation of cow burps (although to be fair, crippling our biggest industry to make an insignificant change to global warming is dubious)
I thought the only way of tackling climate change was for everyone to contribute? And for companies to have to pay for environmental costs as part of their total cost of production? I've seen no evidence that this would cripple NZ dairying, which remains immensely profitable.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to JacksonP,
like this. :-)
Cute!! :-)
Also Magritte . -
Capture: Two Tone, in reply to JacksonP,
that church looks worth a visit one day David
Dunedin! We have heaps of old stuff! :-)
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If anyone's looking for a full-on sea survival story, the New York Times Magazine has this excellent long read: A Speck In the Sea . It's about a fisherman who fell overboard while his partner was asleep. Made me cry, but it's a fascinating tale.
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This is an important article on how often New Zealanders drown while attempting to rescue loved ones.
"It’s important to recognise no trained lifeguard would ever perform a rescue without a flotation device,” says Teresa Stanley of WaterSafe Auckland. This is because a drowning person will instinctively clutch at and even push underwater their would-be saviour.
Only 30 per cent of those surveyed said they would try to get a flotation device to a victim, and almost half indicated they would jump in and attempt a rescue. This included more than one third who reported they could not swim 100 metres.
“This suggests the least-capable would-be rescuers may be at greater risk of drowning by failing to recognise their limitations.”
Alarmingly, says Moran, the least frequently indicated response, using a flotation device, would be the best course of action in most open water situations.
While public rescue equipment is not as prevalent in New Zealand as in some other countries, WaterSafe Auckland has been working to install rescue buoyancy aids in high-risk areas, Stanley says.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to David Hood,
As shipwrecks go, it was a fairly benign one
They had a faulty compass ?? Nice that there was a happy ending and even the mail was saved. :-)
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These are just as they came out of the camera. That sun thing is quite bright, eh?
Near Dunedin.
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Beyond the salt meadow, the tannin-laden water flows to meet the sea.
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At the edges of the meadow which are wetter, the plants thin out. The pine needle in the second one gives scale.
