Laurie
I found the transcript interesting. I particularly noted the following
paragraph:
"I have no doubt that today many farmers are very far ahead of the majority
of Australians in most aspects of environmental thinking. What’s needed now
is a change in consumption patterns by city-dwellers to provide a market for
sustainably produced products. As the ‘buy Australian’ campaigns and the
advertising of many products as ‘environmentally friendly’ shows, there is a
great desire among Australians to preserve their environment. Yet still much
damage continues, in part because urban-dwellers need to become well
informed about what environmental sustainability really means, and how they
need to alter their patterns of consumption in order to achieve it."
This is what a few of us on Birding-aus have been saying for some time and
have been, even, ridiculed for supporting the rural communities. Perhaps
those of you who continue to critisise the primary producers as a group will
rethink your own behaviours.
Terry Pacey
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