I've been thinking it would be good to develop a robot that smells like a kiwi and attracts the predators.
When the predator is crawling over the fake kiwi robot, the robot injects the predator with death poison.
A HUGE contributor to climate change is farming of sheep and beef. New Zealand used to be covered almost entirely in rainforst. Now it is covered almost entirely in grassland for free range production of dairy, sheep & beef.
People in cities don't notice this. People think of New Zealand as a stunning, 'clean, green' paradise. It used to be, before the 1800's, before the white man cleared the land. Now it is a massive freerange meat and dairy factory. People from cities think endless rolling hills filled with sheep & cows is beautiful, but it's not 'natural'. We cut down 2000 year old kauri trees and shipped them to California for flooring.
Alot of farmers are climate change deniers, it's inconvenient for them to believe otherwise.
I believe one of the best things we can do to postively affect the environment is to reduce meat and dairy consumption. It's also the most difficult as meat is so delicious...But it's not meat eating per se that is the problem, it's the removal of rainforests to grow the meat and dairy that is the issue. We can still eat wild goat, deer, possum etc that lives in the forest. You can see how hokey that would sound to some people which is why I believe it's our biggest challenge.
Plant more native forests. Protect native forests.
You need to see these forests to believe how absolutely stunning they are.
I am a coffee roaster, thank you for reading this rant.
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I've been thinking it would be good to develop a robot that smells like a kiwi and attracts the predators. When the predator is crawling over the fake kiwi robot, the robot injects the predator with death poison.
A HUGE contributor to climate change is farming of sheep and beef. New Zealand used to be covered almost entirely in rainforst. Now it is covered almost entirely in grassland for free range production of dairy, sheep & beef. People in cities don't notice this. People think of New Zealand as a stunning, 'clean, green' paradise. It used to be, before the 1800's, before the white man cleared the land. Now it is a massive freerange meat and dairy factory. People from cities think endless rolling hills filled with sheep & cows is beautiful, but it's not 'natural'. We cut down 2000 year old kauri trees and shipped them to California for flooring. Alot of farmers are climate change deniers, it's inconvenient for them to believe otherwise. I believe one of the best things we can do to postively affect the environment is to reduce meat and dairy consumption. It's also the most difficult as meat is so delicious...But it's not meat eating per se that is the problem, it's the removal of rainforests to grow the meat and dairy that is the issue. We can still eat wild goat, deer, possum etc that lives in the forest. You can see how hokey that would sound to some people which is why I believe it's our biggest challenge. Plant more native forests. Protect native forests. You need to see these forests to believe how absolutely stunning they are. I am a coffee roaster, thank you for reading this rant.