Here’s hoping Australia starts tackling its environmental problems soonest, or Ric won’t have a tree to lean on. Cut the sheep-raising, and the tree-felling, and some of the wine production, and the Continent might give you some breathing space in return. Australia- its too dry for agriculture. Nice t-shirt though.
Umm.. maybe this post should have been on Greenmonk.
Picture courtesy of Ric’s Flickr Pics.
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Winemaking isn’t great for water use, but we are working on it. “Agriculture” is a broad expression - we probably shouldn’t be growing rice and cotton in the Murray-Darling Basin (up in the Ord region perhaps), and we shouldn’t be building paper pulp mills in premium wine-growing districts (Limestone Coast in South Aus). Water is still not priced at its value, so we don’t value it enough. We are also still looking at the supply-side (desalination, recycling) and not looking hard enough at the demand-side.
BTW - no linklove on the photo?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhayman/527577094/
ric-corrected.
Thank you James - you’re a sweet man!
why aren’t market mechanisms allowed to work wrt water markets? I hope Australia can perhaps lead the world in this (given how crucial it is to their economy and future.) more thoughts here
Great question Sean. I am not familiar enough with the Australian situation to know the market well enough. In the UK its clear that private companies are rewarded for poor stewardship of resources, so i am not sure what market solution you have in mind.
yer, its crazy what they are doing out in Tasmania at the moment. checkout the Tasmania rainforest slide show here http://www.myspace.com/noalternativecollective
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