The Rural Voice, 1999-06, Page 12WELLESLEY
SHEEP FEEDERS AND
SHERK'S HORSE FEEDER
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• Ruggedly built yet convenient feeder
• Manufactured with 1" x 1" tubing and
14 gauge sheet metal
• 32" wide trough with 318" rod V-type manger
Rods are 2112" apart for less hay waste
• Grains and other fine particle feeds can be
fed. Sizes available: 4', 6' and 8' long.
Other sizes available upon request.
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• Trough made of 14 gauge sheet metal
• 6" deep trough 32" from ground
• V-type manger made of 3/8 rods, 3" apart
Sizes available: 4' or 6' or 8'
all 6' high
Can be used for grains 4P'
and other feeds CANADIAN MADE
TILMAN SHERK
R.R. 3, Wellesley, Ontario
519-656-3338
519-656-3429 evenings
8 THE RURAL VOICE
Robert Mercer
Economy overwhelms natural systems
Once again it is time to revisit
climate change as time is running out
on our ability to halt or reverse the
steady rise in global temperatures.
This temperature in 1998 was at the
highest ever on
record, and in
that year we
achieved the
single largest
annual increase
in global
temperature in
any year.
Records since
1866 show that
the 14 warmest
years have
occurred since
1980. One
cannot ignore
that result as a
statistical aberration. We have a
problem.
For those who feel that the
potential for climate change is
insignificant or irrelevant, let it be
said that "Global climate is an
essential foundation for natural eco-
systems and the entire human
economy". Even in this high-tech
information age, human society
cannot prosper while the natural
world is progressively degraded and
that is what we are doing worldwide.
There are many contributing
factors to climate change and the
human activities that accelerate that
change. One factor that is given great
significance is the build-up of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
It is now estimated that the
concentration of one of these gases,
carbon dioxide, was 280ppm at the
beginning of the industrial
revolution. In 1998, CO2 measured
383ppm. The fossil -fuel economy
which drives our economic, growth -
oriented model and contributes to
CO2 emissions, has overwhelmed the
earth's natural systems to fix carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere.
Up until now it appears as if
mankind has acquired the capacity to
We can't
ignore climate
change
alter earth's natural systems, but we
have refused to fully accept the
responsibility for doing so.
In a corporate switch of
astounding frankness, Sir John
Browne, Chief Executive of BP
Amoco, the world's second largest
oil company, has declared his support
for the aims of the Convention on
Climate Change held in Kyoto, Japan
in 1997. He has in fact broken ranks
with the other oil companies and
started to turn his giant oil company
in to a reformed "Green" dragon for
change.
In a move that reflects this
attitude, BP recently purchased
Solarex. This move now makes BP
the world's largest solar -energy
company. Browne has also spoke in
terms of these being the "last days of
the oil age." He is in fact seen as
preparing his company for "life after
oil."
Fuel cells, solar energy, and wind
energy are some of the fastest
growing elements of our economy.
Oil on the other hand is finite. Proven
oil reserves will likely limit global oil
production to peak in the year 2010.
From then on production volumes
will decline sharply if alternative
energy sources are not found and
utilized. The world, at current rates
of oil use, will be out of supply by
the year 2100. In other words our
total exploitable reserves of oil on
this planet are now half gone.
With perception 100 per cent of
reality in the marketplace, Sir John
Browne has realized that his
company cannot survive if it remains
out of tune with consumers and the
attitudes of the next generation.
The legacy we all leave behind by
doing nothing about our attitudes to
over -consumption and exploitation of
the world's natural resources, is that
of a world deteriorating ecologically,
declining economically and
disintegrating socially. It is in fact a
world now emerging that no one
wants.
For farmers, climate change is