Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis

New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden and not so hidden costs of intensive farming?

Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environmental crisis. This perilous situation, he argues, has arisen primarily through governmental policy that prioritises short-term economic growth over long-term environmental sustainability.

This BWB Text is a call to arms, urging New Zealand to change course in the face of environmental degradation that risks the well-being of future generations and all life as we know it on these islands.