An interesting blog post about sustainability on another island:
http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/09/a-letter-inspir.html
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> Much of New Zealand's pastureland (by no means all) is cleared land,
> and that means some of it would have been rainforest, even on the
> South Island.
Cleared land certainly, before people got here the islands were pretty
much covered by native bush tip to tail (excepting the tussocked
hi
On 21/09/2008, at 1:58 PM, Euan Ritchie wrote:
> NZ's population is just over 4 million (in a country 20% larger than
> the
> U.K), we have more like 60 millions sheep currently and not many of
> their pastures were rain forests (only the very North of NZ is
> sub-tropical, mostly we've a temper
> unfortunately the domestic sheep population in new zealand numbers
> over 75 million (mostly for export) and their hooves are destroying
pasture
> that used to be rain forest.
> the human population is less than 5 million...
> http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/rural-nz/sustainable-resource-use/organ
> The standard rational - supporting farmers is
> supporting food security, but it generally
> isn't true, because a vast proportion of farm
> subsidies do not actively support the growing of
> staple crops but merely corporate profits.
> A considerable amount of farming
