Self-Sufficiency Deficits?
I could go on about the many areas upon which we share agreement but my mail would become tediously long. I am sure some will victimise you for what you have said - the truth hurts and there a few people with the guts to put what most people believe in print. However, someone somewhere has to stand up to the bullies who have created this mess and I guess it just has to be us who start the ball rolling (not that I have been particularly brave because I have had to use a pseudonym to keep my job).
I see you have lived in Skye so I can see why NZ appeals. I used to go to Lewis frequently as a child for holidays and loved it. I can no longer buy supermarket salmon because the fresh stuff I buy from Uig Lodge in Lewis is so good that I simply cannot go back to the dyed plastic rubbish. Perhaps this is the beauty of the internet because it can bypass big producers. I am helping to review a locally produced book that runs through climate change in Guernsey which is written by a variety of scientists and interested parties. I have just started it but when it is published later this year I will send you a copy. In the meantime I have been sending your presentation to everyone I come across with a New Zealand connection.
Thank you once again for buying my book and for getting in touch - I look forward to receiving further updates. Meanwhile I will send through articles which I write from time to time which you can use or not use as you wish. Please feel free to put any of my comments on your web-site. Alternatively you may want me to do a punchy recommendation note for your book.
All the best and congratulations, Hugo Bouleau
Oil is the big one here along with most metals. I understand it is possible to make oil from any carbon containing material such as coal, natural gas or even plant matter such as trees. There have been a few studies done on getting fuel from trees and they agree it is possible in theory and with oil the price it is now could even be economic. I read somewhere that the equivalent area as a 200 times 200 km square block of forest continuously harvested and replanted over a 25 year cycle would replace all of NZ's coal, oil and gas requirements using Fisher-Tropsch conversion techniques. About the same size as the current North Island forested area. Ben Davies