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Tourism's long green miles : Comments
By Ross Elliott, published 27/8/2012If even letting some mountain bikes and horse riders re-enter our national parks draws criticism, what hope is there for developing new product for the industry state-wide?
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Naturally, they would be the new elite, with a few solar panels, lap tops and mobile phones, [minimal lifestyle,] to allow other to recognise them, as the new natural forest saving leaders?
What is wrong with that picture, is what we could become if we simply followed that evocation?
Northern Ethiopia, was once a forested landscape covered in verdant forest. Dotted amongst that forest were numerous villages and populations, living the very hand to mouth lifestyles, espoused by Green acolytes?
Two disastrous droughts in recent living memory, have changed that once verdant landscape into a veritable lunar landscape. And a now a dispossessed migrant population wanders aimlessly, looking for sanctuary and international food aid to simply survive.
The Greens will shrug their couldn't care less shoulders or come up with population reduction measures?
Like, simply refuse to help or provide food aid?
Thereby exacerbating and spreading the PERMANENT environmental damage inflicted on the landscape by the desperate and starving population.
The Green view is a minority view, that simply refuses to countenance democracy, or the majority view?
It's an eco-fascist political tail, I believe, that uses the vagaries of our peculiar, much manipulated preferential voting system, to wag the political dog?
They are on the public record fatuously claiming, that the rigs in Bass Straight would destroy the marine environment, that tourism would replace lost forestry incomes in tiny Tassie, and similarly, tourism would provide bigger better returns for northern Q'ld, than the foregone multi trillion dollar hydrocarbon industry, we might have developed near the reef, if we were but guided by pragmatism instead?
What we need to lock out of OUR forests, are the DICTATORIAL Greens, who seem to believe the wilderness belongs exclusively to them?
Rhrosty.