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Great article Sonia and backed up with graphic photo's. It is my personal and sad opinion that we have gone to far now and there is no turning back the clock.
It is a sad fact though that the politicians still will not listen, there is a lot of talk going on here in Australia but that is because it's an election year and when that is over it will be forgotten for another four years.
Green and clean technology such as solar recieves little to no funding at all and as an example I use my own property, It cost me $4,000 to have coventional power put onto the farm, to have full solar installed and return power not being used back to the grid would have costed $44,000. In return for doing this the government would give me a rebate of $400 to help with the cost. If we had investested in this technology 20 years ago these type of costs would be comparable to conventional power and more people would use it, but as usual the governments of the day couldnt see past the next election and missed the boat totally.
I personally subscibe to the principles of Permaculture and believe that every little bit helps. Everyone can do this even in their own backyards, the trick is to think globally and act locally.
I dont believe that renouncing all technology and going back to the stone age will help either instead we need to use it wisely and to our advantage.
Cheers
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