Thursday 29 August 2013

John Gale - Badger Genocide

Badger Genocide


In blighty the so-called ‘alliance’ government of the Imperialist Invaders, with the backing of the Germanic royalty, the Norman aristocracy and the general human populace (over 60 million mongrel descendants of Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, etc) have launched a genocidal attack on the mere 250,000 population one of the oldest inhabitants (Meles meles aka Brock, grey pate, bawson, baget ; broch, pryf penrith, pryf llwyd [Welsh] ;  brochlach [Scottish Gaelic] ; broc [Irish Gaelic]) of this sacred isle.
The politicians have decided that for this ‘cull’ to be affective, at least 70% of the population have to be slaughtered.
 
P.S.  In 1998 the Government undertook a 9-year[1] large scale field experiment to ascertain the effectiveness of badger culling and Bovine TB. The result was “culling of Badgers increased the incidence of infection in cattle”
The results are discussed at length in a 287-page UK government study and in numerous scientific papers, including several in Nature 2
, 3.
 
So is the government’s decision to let farmers shoot badgers scientifically sound?
 
No, says John Krebs, a zoologist, member of the House of Lords, and principal of Jesus College at the University of Oxford, who recommended running the 9-year study. “They went against the science on political grounds.”
1.      Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB Bovine TB: the Scientific Evidence (ISG, 2007); available at http://go.nature.com/7gdmdh
2.      Donnelly, C. A. et al. Nature 426, 834837 (2003).
3.      Donnelly, C. A. et al. Nature 439, 843846 (2006).
http://www.nature.com/news/badger-battle-erupts-in-england-1.11595#/b1

Monday 26 August 2013

Iroquois. Confederacy

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of your grandchildren and those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
 
This weeks green thought comes from the founders of the Iroquois. Confederacy, c.1000 AD
 
 

Monday 19 August 2013

Wolfgang Sachs

The quest for fairness in a finite world means in the first place changing the rich, not the poor. Poverty alleviation, in other words, cannot be separated from wealth alleviation.
 
This weeks green thought comes from the 2010 preface of the new edition of the 1992 The Development Dictionary edited by Wolfgang Sachs.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sachs

Monday 12 August 2013

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

This weeks green thought comes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895 – 1986 )
 
 

Monday 5 August 2013

Neil Evernden - ’ ‘Natural Alien’

 ‘In combating exploitation, environmentalists have tutored the developer in the art of careful exploitation’.
 
This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from page 23 of Neil Everndens’ ‘Natural Alien’ (2nd Edit. 1993).