George Monbiot "how we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes"

[Cowabunga]

You forgot the ring leader .......Badger

Can't forget Him! He's the most important of all and all cattle farmers, cattle, llama and deer will be sacrificed in His name or otherwise disease and pestilence will prevail.
In His name. The Power and the Glory.
Amen!!!

 

[caveman]

Can't forget Him! He's the most important of all and all cattle farmers, cattle, llama and deer will be sacrificed in His name or otherwise disease and pestilence will prevail.
In His name. The Power and the Glory.
Amen!!!

Bugger.
You gone got religion?

 

[Ley253]

Mr Newt will die out as there will be no free running streams/clean water, everything will have silted up and become sterile peat bogs, Mr toad will have suffered as he needs dry ground, he only spawns in water, Mr bat should do quite well, there will be plenty of insects around the bogs, so providing they are not too far from his caves in the cliffs there should be no problem. Mind you, as there will be no firm ground to build on, no land to grow food on, man may be farming bats, and living in the cliffs with them!

 

[Cowabunga]

Bugger.
You gone got religion?

The Right Obnoxious Reverend Dr. Brian is His ambassador on Earth. Not me. Give me a few more years and I'll be ready to go where the money goes and if the money goes to His church, I'd like to be doing the collections.
All hail Lord Badger.

Pity about the hogs that are't in the hedges, but there's only room for one cuddly God at the top of this earthly tree.

 

[czechmate]

The Right Obnoxious Reverend Dr. Brian is His ambassador on Earth. Not me. Give me a few more years and I'll be ready to go where the money goes and if the money goes to His church, I'd like to be doing the collections.
All hail Lord Badger.

Pity about the hogs that are't in the hedges, but there's only room for one cuddly God at the top of this earthly tree.

Now, correct me if I am wrong but did you say my contribution was irrelevant to the topic?

 

[Cowabunga]

Now, correct me if I am wrong but did you say my contribution was irrelevant to the topic?

Have I done a good job of deflecting from farmer's self destruction?

 

[czechmate]

Have I done a good job of deflecting from farmer's self destruction?

Ha ha.
Why does anyone care what this GM (I've never heard of him) thinks anyway? And how many copies does the comic sell these days?

 

[cudota]

Dr Brian.... scara moosh scara moosh will you do the fandango very very frightening be ....him

 

[DRC]

I can see its a problem and I was actually thinking about it this afternoon. Here it is harvested that bit sooner and followed with cereals. Maybe it just isn't acceptable to grow it when harvest wil inevitably be so late to cause damage and no chance of any remedy?

Touch wood, but I've never failed to get wheat drilled after maize in 15 years of growing it. Early varieties, and the right fields!. I think it's being exaggerated on this forum.

 

[Kevtherev]

Just showing George the fine art of dredging[emoji106]

 

[SilliamWhale]

I would say that this is a complete irrelevance and distraction from the subject of this topic and the current floods.
If you wish to discuss an alliance with Mr Monbiot on that issue in arable areas, I suggest you start another topic or discuss it by Twatting George.

I'd say that the issue is multifaceted. Some places dredging may be the thing to do, some places not. Some places increasing a meander would help some places not. Some places would be cheaper to flood farmland than a town, some not etc.

The way Monbiot expresses himself is sometimes classless but he has a strong point and to say he is a complete twit on all his points is untrue. I've never read that he advocates packing up farming etc. just that we more aware of what are actions are. Plenty of opportunities for landowners here.

 

[turbo]

Its time all the environmental do gooders were told to clear off for a year or two so the country can sort it self out,if they are so sure dredging wouldn't work let the farmers ,landowners ,businesses and home owners pay to have a river cleared from source to sea if it doesn't work the ea has lost nothing but if it stops flooding they have to roll it out across the country.

 

[danjen]

Have I done a good job of deflecting from farmer's self destruction?

Think you have had too much "pop" over Christmas.

 

[Storeman]

Soon, the Newt, Mr Toad and the common Bat will rule the Earth and Man will be their full-time servant.

Indeed. That is the idea behind the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty.

 

[Sid]

I haven't read the whole thread, sorry, but i would say that if he wants to blame the farmers lets all build flood defenses to protect our farmland on the flood plans to prevent it from flooding and push the flooding on down to the towns. George can then explain how the fact that instead of the water being 2 feet deep in Mr and Mrs Jones's downstairs its now touching the top steps of their staircase!