Perhaps the government should take a step back and have a look at what happened in China under Mao Zedong where central planing of the food supply resulted in widespread famine.

David

Australia is a huge country, with a very small population. We have enormous resources, if we choose to use them, for feeding ourselves AND a fair fraction of the world. Unfortunately, we’ve evolved an overwhelmingly urban outlook on agriculture. Modern farming is a half-tick behind timber-cutting, strip mining and hydroelectricity on inner-city activists’ lists of most hated economic activities.

Elite opinion asserts that small family farms are socially and environmentally superior to large, high-intensity agricultural operations. The fact that humans have been abandoning ‘organic’ subsistence farming for urban life since well before the time of the Pharoahs simply proves that big business has corrupted the masses. Infrastructure is adding another lane to a busy capital city freeway; building a road to link country towns is environmental vandalism.

In the 1950s and 60s, Norman Borlaug’s work earned him the Nobel for preventing famine in India and China; today, environmental warriors would vandalise his experiments and regulate his methods out of existence. And they’re the ones who’d vet any ‘education’ campaigns. If the WWF can write the IPCC’s reports on climate change, what might they do with a pile of government money devoted to teaching us how to manage farming?

We need more bureaucracy to keep everyone occupied,otherwise they will be in the streets protesting.Bureaucracy is great! It kills off productivity,makes the masses poorer and reduces the carbon footprint.Carbon is the basis of all life,energy from fossil fuels,source of diamonds and a filter for toxins.It needs to be taxed since it is doing too much good!

Poverty and ignorance is the way to go,since then our humanity can destroy itself in self flagellating guilt, making the 1% a lot richer.

HHmmm right

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