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Last updated on July 23rd, 2017 at 09:29 am
Kyoto is bad for trees:
Wairarapa forest owners are being short-changed by the Government’s Kyoto policies, says Denis Hocking of the NZ Farm Forestry Association …
Mr Hocking said that instead of reaping the rewards from helping New Zealand meet its Kyoto commitments, local foresters are finding that their forest sink credits (the carbon credits they earn from planting trees) are being used to bail out their competitors.
Wood products compete with aluminium, plastic and steel, but the Government is re-allocating the credits earned by foresters to companies operating in those industries.
“The worry we’ve got is they’re our competition and they’re getting our credits,” Mr Hocking said. “Effectively they will be subsidised by forestry.”
Meanwhile, deforestation is progressing at a rapid rate as foresters turn over their land to pasture for dairy cows and sheep.
I take back all my criticism of Kyoto. This result is absolutely beautiful.
Andrew Jaspan will be outraged:
Douglas Wood to testify against captors
I mean…the ingratitude!
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 08 30 at 08:47 AM • permalink
Well, if you susidize a thing, you get more of it. It looks like NZ is in for more aluminum, plastic, steel and . . .sheep? Does NZ really need more sheep? It would be ironic, as well as tragic, if Kyoto wound up turning NZ into something resembling Easter Island. Perhaps the country could be dotted with great stone likenesses of pro-Kyoto politicians.
Is there any government law, regulation, or treaty that doesn’t have unintended consequences?
Adam Smith wrote about the Invisible Hand of private enterprise, but clearly there’s an invisible hand of government that creates disorder everywhere it goes.
As the noted philosopher Ringo Starr pointed out, “Everything government touches turns to crap”.
But then they subsidize the crap-shovelers. It’s all part of the circle of life! OT: Anyone down under have a use for Spotted Owl feathers? How about Snail-Darter skins? I’m all out of freshly-clubbed baby Harp Seal pelts, but I’m expecting a shipment on Monday.
Posted by crusher_of_libs on 2005 08 30 at 01:10 PM • permalink
#5, Rob: yeah, but then you are using facts, doncha know? Lefties loathe facts.
Rebecca: hmmmmmmmm, reduction of the leftie population through cannibalism. What an intriguing idea!!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 30 at 02:20 PM • permalink
Wood products compete with aluminium, plastic and steel, but the Government is re-allocating the credits earned by foresters to companies operating in those industries.
Aluminium!!! Where do you think all of the moonbats hats come from?
Posted by crusher_of_libs on 2005 08 30 at 03:56 PM • permalink
#7 Probably not. However, the current thought in mainstream microeconomics is that market forces do not necessarily deliver optimal outcomes. Indeed, equilibrium does not require all factors of production (read individuals) to consume any resources. However, the underlying assumptions, somewhat paradoxically, require them to continue to exist.
Government’s role, in these circumstances, is to ensure a safety net for individuals to subsist. While politicians, being politicians, often go beyond what is minimally required, at least legislation is transparent. Unfortunately the machinations of bureaucracy is often not. It is the Sir Humphreys that turn things to crap as they impose their own ideology.
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Checkmate! Argument lost.