Dave Read, that is, a sheep farmer in the North Island.
He writes here about the terrible growing impact of farmland being bought and turned into massive pine forests because of the Climate Change policies of successive New Zealand governments.
I had to laugh a little at his background, where he grew up on a farm but studied physics at university and learned to shear sheep a decade before going farming in 1990. He comes from a long line of farmers.
I have walked to every corner of the farm and feel an intimate connection to this land. Returning from elsewhere, I get to within 100km of home and feel the land reaching out towards me. When the land suffers under drought or flood, I feel it as a pain in my own body.
But he’s also feeling pain from another source now:
Right now, I feel like a contentious objector must have during the first world war. I am being reviled as an environmental vandal. The news feels like propaganda. A 2021 UN report calls for a 45 per cent cut in world methane. The report lays out targets for each sector and makes it clear most cuts should come from plugging pipeline leaks. Yet the commentary is summed up as … ‘New Zealand falls short of 45 per cent target.’
That article is actually in the Australian Spectator, likely because our MSM do want to see it. In Stuff it would likely be regarded as “Denialism”, the slur used in all areas by simple-minded people who can’t argue.
When I do the math, the UN target for ruminant stock works out to a 4.7 per cent reduction for New Zealand. This is under half New Zealand’s target, but no editor will print this fact because ‘readers don’t want complicated maths’, ‘you are not a climate expert’, ‘it would undermine the consensus achieved’.
What’s happening around him is grim:
I am forced to watch sustainable food production (my life’s work) destroyed even though it is expected that 1.4 billion people will be protein-deficient by 2050. I lie awake in the early hours, composing yet another submission to be filed and ignored by group of professional listeners in Wellington (the seat of our government). The road that used to be quiet at 4am roars with logging trucks carrying logs from trees planted in the 90s during the last wave of land-use change.
Transport carries on warming the planet; people drive to the store when they could walk; they fly to Sydney for shopping weekends instead of buying local.
Meanwhile my sector, the only sector of New Zealand no longer warming the planet, is being gutted.
I wonder how much longer this can go on? I wonder if a change of government in 2023 will mean any change to this at all?
I suspect not.
No Minister 
All very sad, really.
There is no actual climate crisis, man-made or other. There are plenty of physicists, not so called climate scientists, who will tell you that. Actual recordings from all parts of the world demonstrate so, or little temperature increase.
The world temperature is a derived, manipulated figure anyway, as is sea temperature.
The ozone hole is now monstrous in size compared to 40 years ago. You hear nothing of it, and has the world come to an end? As I write this I still seem to be alive but hey, who knows, it could be some advanced world’s virtual reality. Them looking back 1000 centuries to laugh at what they thought was advanced civilization.
As for the world population. Well, any Stage 1 Geography student could tell you, no wucking worries there. China is set to decline to 1 billion or less, Japan is in decline already, Western European countries are going the same way, Russia is well down, and is behind their military decline. Its a natural cycle that all advanced countries experience.
The current population boom was a result of 2 world wars, and the baby boomers are nearing cycle end.
Cabon credits as a policy response is bullshit. Since no crisis exists it is a response to a non existent problem that has distorted ours and many other countries’ economies.
Like Covid we no longer have the ability, motivation, desire, or brains to go against the world.
One can only hope that enough right thinking people take power to reverse this errant stupidity.
President Trump led the way, what a visionary he is, compared to the plodders you see everywhere now.
Certainly, for New Zealand there is nothing that will replace farming, now or in the future.
All that will happen is the intellectual knowledge of farming that has been built over 4 or 5 generations in this country will be eroded, and it will take another 3 or 4 to get it back.
As they say, in the long run there is only economics, and you pay the price now or in the future.
But for a certain political class the means justify the ends, and 15 generations of innovation is the most dangerous thing that ever happened on earth.
Heres my solution:
Farming New Zealand find a lawyer with balls. Thats the first hurdle and it maybe insumountable!
Secondly lay charges under the Crimes Against Humanity at a court in New Zealand.
Basically Adern, O’connor and Shaw would be the respondents, but you could include the Labour Party and the Green Party
They are intending to murder millions. Sure they are not the Rudolf Hoss level, longest serving commandant of Auschwitz, they are the Himmler level, he was the architect of the final solution.
Adern, O’connor, and Shaw are planning to murder millions, not directly, but indirectly, by remote control.
Like Hitler and Himmler these 3 are justifying their actions on the basis of a supposed greater good, and supposedly taking orders from other people higher up the knowledge chain than then.
If New Zealand feeds 40 million people, then a 5 % reduction in our food output through a Green policy implementation contributes to wiping out 2 million people.
To Adern and Shaw as a committed Marxist this is nothing.
O’connor architect of a solution that will kill millions, and like Himmler he wont have to visit the remote sites where the actual policy is implemented.
He’ll just have to live with other West Coasters, and people of humanity that will despise him for it.
Because in the end they will be proved wrong, just as Himmler was.
As I said to my farming-hating Green neighbour, “I have the perfect protest for you. Just stop consuming meat, vegetables and milk products. Knock yourself out. You’ll feel great but hungry.” End of conversation.
New Zealand is basically being destroyed before our very eyes.
Reason for hope: what is being done is now getting so blatantly obvious, that those who have been thinking it’s all just an accident of circumstance are likely now going to start wondering if it is being done on purpose.
On people starving and freezing while fighting global warming
How anybody can think it is a good idea to close down NZ pastoral farming so less efficient (climate-wise and economically) countries can increase their production is beyond me. Tragic.