Caulerpa now in BOI

[K4309 405]

If we could just add this to the emissions trading scheme, sell carbon credits to the US and Europe, we'd make squillions of dollars. Perhaps even enough to build a new hospital in Dunedin.

Jokes aside, this is carbon sequestration at it's finest. Sometimes nature has it's own way of finding balance.

[Psyche 826]

Things change, one of the underlying assumptions when we view the natural world is that its "in balance" except for us pesky humans who are not part of nature but somehow outside the environment 🤣 The reality is that the world is always changing, Kauri forests grow up, get burnt down, dinosaurs existed then poof they are gone, the earth rises and sinks, earthquakes, floods, volcanos, ice ages and now caulerpa in NZ. How did it get here? One can only guess. Can we manage it? maybe, perhaps technology is the answer but what is certain is the environment that supports it is going to change eventually. I trust that MPI can implement a management plan to prevent further spread as much as possible. I'm a bit salty on the dredge idea but maybe it can mitigate growth in some of the heavily infested areas, that and a bit of hand weeding, UV treatment or even genetically modified greeblies to eat it? 

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[waikiore 489]

Imagine if you could feed it to dairy cows , replace palm kernel with it.....  Actually there are a lot of people making money out of it already -though none have stopped the spread.