Virtue signalling needs no justification.

Well, they aren't “hammering” me because I don't watch War On Waste or anything except fictitious entertainment on the ABC, and there is precious little of that.

If you are still watching the ABC, you are a left wing twit, a masochistic, or someone who wants something to whinge about. I have no sympathy for anyone still complaining about the ABC because it means that they are still watching it or listening to it.

ttbn,

I listen to ABC Classic FM all the time, every day. It helps distract the tinnitus that plagues my wife. To me it is familiar background music, but I don't 'listen' to it — rather, I hear it. I get five minutes of news as well, plus the promos, and it it was the promos about the war on waste that finally got to me.

I agree with your argument about farmers needing to be realistic, Don, but I do think we have arrived at a new climate normal that will tip a lot more farmers out than in the past.

We need to support them in their exit, rather than their staying on the land which, if aggregated, may be viably farmed by larger entities. It's tragic, but that's business.

Glad to hear that, Don. I never had you pegged as an ABC tragic, nor as one of the types I mentioned. There is still some decent BBC escapist material to be seen on ABC1.

While I can agree with some of your points, Don. I have to take issue with a few others, and spare us the history lesson every farmer knows as family history!

Some of which include strong men and women breaking and tragically ending their own lives and possibly others?

Something your tasteless article glosses over as being of no moment.

Or like saying we've always had an unusual proportion of rural drought-related suicides as if it were merely irrelevant academic fact or dry history. And presented with your highly credentialled wisdom as if it was all a fait acompli, we none of us could do little about?

And this is where I differ from the coal-fired acidemic enthusiast and draw his academic attention to homegrown Aussie two tank innovation that turns organic wastes into biogas able to power the average Aussie domicile 24/7, with the waste product being thoroughly sanitised reusable nutrient-rich, (millions of annual litres) of water for crops or fodder factories or this or that industrial, process, the other being annul tons (millions) of carbon-rich soil improver. Which improves moisture retention!

If this gas is both scrubbed and used in super silent, ceramic fuel cells? It includes a 50% or better salable surplus of home-generated power or storable gas.

Waste and supermarket practises and preferred marketing are here to stay! No question!

Plastics can be recycled up to 7 times, then baled and used in place of coal in carbon dependant coal smelting. Or with waste rubber turned into crude oil! energy dependent technology, able to be deployed for job growth in dirt-poor rural communities.

As opposed to ABC's curiously favoured presenter agonising over it from a greenies political perspective?

[ I also draw your attention to the nuclear waste article, below yours and the numerous like-minded, science-based, lucid replies, which include mine.]

Adding in (the ABC')s waste as per their regurgitated article on food waste would dramatically increase the biogas production!

And for mine indicates every home should have a mandatory Insinkerator!
Alan B.