http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/04/oh-bolivia/ Taking the heat out of global warming Sun, 20 May 2012 10:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2011/04/oh-bolivia/comment-page-1/#comment-48796 Alexander K Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:29:18 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=9436#comment-48796 If anyone doubted that large sections of the UN is barking mad, this should settle it. It might seem a little OT and mean spirited, but we New Zealanders are very fortunate that the Maori are of more practical stock than the idigenous Bolivians. While the Maori had their set of religious beliefs to sustain them and explain the unexplainable, their veiw of the natural world was largely pragmatic and sensible; as an example, they only had specific names for the three native ferns they found useful in one way or another - the balance of the 300 or so native ferns were 'just ferns', not items to be loved for silly reasons. I suspect the current Bolivian effort has been influenced more than a little by the personal use of Coca in one of it's more refined forms. If anyone doubted that large sections of the UN is barking mad, this should settle it.
It might seem a little OT and mean spirited, but we New Zealanders are very fortunate that the Maori are of more practical stock than the idigenous Bolivians. While the Maori had their set of religious beliefs to sustain them and explain the unexplainable, their veiw of the natural world was largely pragmatic and sensible; as an example, they only had specific names for the three native ferns they found useful in one way or another – the balance of the 300 or so native ferns were ‘just ferns’, not items to be loved for silly reasons.
I suspect the current Bolivian effort has been influenced more than a little by the personal use of Coca in one of it’s more refined forms.

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