Nitrate in drinking water could cause up to 100 cases of bowel cancer in NZ
Nitrate contamination of drinking water could cause up to 100 cases of bowel cancer in New Zealand every year, leading to 40 deaths, New Zealand research has estimated. The estimate is based on international studies linking nitrate in drinking water and bowel cancer combined with assessment of the levels of nitrate in drinking water in... Continue Reading →
NZ should have half the number of cows
Instead of asking what we can extract from the land, ask what the land can sustain. He wants to count all the consequences of intensive dairying: environmental, social, cultural and economic. https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/25/dairy-cows-nz-methane-emissions/ https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/08/25/dairy-cows-nz-methane-emissions/
My presentation to the TEU Academic Freedom, Critic and Conscience Conference 31/Aug 2021
It’s a hard road taking on the critic and conscience role as an academic As a scientist I am often accused of the heinous crime of being an advocate. As a “scientist” I’m supposed to be ‘value-free’. Like a robot or an automaton. I must stick only to the “science” So as a scientist I... Continue Reading →
Mike Joy on the freshwater crisis, transcript of an interview with Keri Mills 11 March 2019
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The scale of change for landuse transition. my presentation to the 2021 EDS conference
· The NZ freshwater crisis indicators reveal the massive impact on freshwater and atmosphere of current intensive farming systems · The $ cost (externalities) of intensive dairy farming exceed the income, and allowing these externalities are left to be absorbed by the rest of society and future generations they are effectively a subsidy · This... Continue Reading →
Environmental scientist Mike Joy: We must find ways of using and wasting less
Environmental scientist Mike Joy: We must find ways of using and wasting less https://share.transistor.fm/s/c8e9c733
Freshwater for life 