Wind farms a blow to our environment
ABOUT 12 months ago I wrote regarding the detrimental effect wind turbines had on bird life in the US (some 300,000 killed) plus problems associated with low frequency noise.
Litigation is now rampant in the US from farmers and the public.
Ex-greens leader Bob Brown has now also publicly denounced the wind turbines/farms to be bad for farmers and a major problem to bird life.
Coupled with this, numerous above-ground electricity poles have been allocated across prime farming land to transport the power. Yes, many farmers have taken big dollars to allow access to their land, knowing or unaware of the problems that lie ahead.
It is disgraceful to see both federal and state governments, along with councils assisting the rapid growth of something that obviously has not been properly investigated.
It would also be interesting to hear from a Greens politician regarding the annihilation of this country’s bird life.
ROB JONES, North Ward.
VAD CRUCIAL FOR QLD
LAST weekend, after many months, the Queensland Law Reform Commission’s staff completed the final proofing of the complex and challenging task of drafting a bill on voluntary assisted dying (VAD) for Queenslanders. If implemented, it will finally give all those terminally ill patients a choice of the manner and timing of their deaths.
This is about giving people in their last weeks and months of life in agony the right to have a say what happens to themselves. It is a way they can have a peacefully, pain-free and dignified death.
Australia has a high standard of palliative care and it does help many patients but there are those others with pain so severe, nothing can help them. These people need our compassion and a way to end their suffering. VAD will do that for them.
We would dearly like to see dementia sufferers included in this draft report because these patients and their family are also suffering.
When people have cognitive function, that is the time they should be allowed to access a legal document which cannot be overturned, stating their wishes if they are diagnosed with dementia in the future.
Will it ever happen?
I hope so. There are too many people in care homes suffering from different types of dementia and it’s too late for those already there but unless researchers make a breakthrough, there will be many more doomed to live their lives in care. The one disease most people fear most as we age is dementia.
With several other states in Australia in the process of legalising VAD and many overseas countries having had it for over 20 years with no apparent problems, it’s about time Queensland does too.
JOAN MUSUMECI, Condon.
DEEP FREEZE REAL THREAT
WE are into our third spring month, and it is still snowing in the northern hemisphere, yet the madmen ruling the planet will not let the media inform the people that the climate experts were wrong about man-made global warming.
Earth is facing a deep freeze, and solar scientists are warning us that this cooling, which has accelerated dramatically this year, will continue for several decades.
We will only care about climate change when we start to go hungry because of the cold weather. The endless winter is again shortening the growing season. The extension of winter this late into the spring will drive already soaring food prices into the stratosphere.
On May 10, it was still snowing, and another vast cold front moves as far south as Florida.
The trillions spent on the pandemic could have all gone into vertical farming and other technologies to mitigate crop losses, thus saving millions of more lives in the hungry future that is coming our way.
The commonsense that the longer you ignore a problem, the more it will grow applies to a cooling planet and the damage it will do to our food supply. Source: Dr Sircus https://drsircus.com/ general/the-madness-of-coolinga-cooling-planet/
WERNER SCHMIDLIN,
Yorkeys Knob.
LARGE SNAKE PERPLEXING
QUESTION: Can anyone tell me why there is a large snake illustrated on the Cowboys building near the Queensland Country Bank Stadium?
IAN FERGUSON, South Townsville.