Posted on 09/06/2024 6:08:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Australians will need to cut back on red meat and ditch petrol cars for electric vehicles in order to reach net zero emissions by 2050, according to the government agency advising Anthony Albanese on the target.
The Climate Change Authority has suggested a series of lifestyle changes to get Australia to net zero in a new report released on Wednesday.
The Authority has suggested Aussies swap red meat like beef and lamb for more emission-friendly options like kangaroo, chicken and pork.
The advice comes after the Climate Council found that agriculture was responsible for over half of Australia's methane emissions in 2022-23.
It found that nearly 65 per cent of climate pollution came from methane emitted by cattle, like cows and sheep as they digested their food.
The council estimates the industry is responsible for around 18 per cent of Australia's total emissions, primarily by raising livestock.
National Farmers' Federation President David Jochinke hit back at the suggestion Australians should change their food preferences.
'The NFF strongly opposes this notion, maintaining that a balanced and nutritious diet includes red meat,' Mr Jochinke said.
'The idea that alternative animal proteins could replace red meat in Australia's unique rangelands is severely misguided.'
Another sector the CCA wants to see changes is the automobile industry.
It argues that all light car sales will need to be electric by 2040.
'Sales of new light vehicles reaching 100 per cent electric ahead of 2040 can ensure there are minimal light vehicle emissions by 2050,' the report states.
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Sacrifices must be made.
Trow the schmuck on the barbie.
Thow the schmuck on the barbie.
I was thinking the same thing.
I watch AUSSIE GOLD HUNTERS.
Forest Gump - Stupid is as stupid does.
I feel bad for the kids whose idiot parents will go along with this.
How about that documentary show about the OZ truckers making the seasonal run, hopefully before the big rains and floods, into the primitive outback.
EVs for that????
Australia is mostly semi arid or actual arid lands...chickens don’t do well on arid lands. Kangaroos do well and are quite tasty it’s a red meat like beef tenderloin.
I love getting work in the outback it’s always an adventure, the people are great and the scenery is world class. Another thing Australia has in spades is camels they are an invasive species they are tasty too.
Interesting thing is camels and kangaroos use a different form of cellulose fermentation that doesn’t emit much or any methane. Forget the climate change commies but methane is a pollutant it forms VOCs near ground level and smog too. Not all of it rises immediately there are mechanisms for it to remain near ground level. Anyone who has been to a large feed lot can tell you the air quality near by is terrible this is one of the reasons why.
Australia is too dry most places for cattle , sheep and goats are better and that’s why Australia has tons more sheep than cows. Turns out here in Texas feral hogs do quite well in West Texas as long as they have a watering hole they can thrive in semi arid lands,not saying to let loose some ferals in the land of Oz but....if you want pork in the outback. Bugger breed twice a year with 5 to 17 piglets per litter and they have no natural predator once full sized they are the apex predator.
EVs no, hydrogen fuel cells you betcha. You can put enough hydrogen on the two side rails and behind the sleeper cab for 2500+ miles of range double what an ICE truck can do why? Because fuel cells are twice as efficient as a diesel. Added bonus is Australia is mostly blazing desert with 300+ days of sun per year that’s perfect for solar panels to run water to hydrogen cells the high pressure kind where you pump water to 300 bar then split that into already at full pressure H2/O2. If you really want to get froggy even in the driest desert air contains some.moisture calcium or lithium chloride will both absorb that moisture down to zero percent humidity. While becoming a liquid salt brine. Since you are in the blazing desert you then use said thermonuclear fireball in the sky to heat up said brine and out comes the water into condensate form. There are a number of commercial versions of water from air tech the military and DARPA were behind one of them for obvious reasons. So with sun and air you can make fuel for hydrogen depots in the middle of nowhere. It’s not if but when for the desert regions of the world as liquid hydrocarbons run out.
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If your trying to destroy the West than killing off the Western ‘Cowboy’ is a great start. Who represents the West better?
If your trying to destroy the West than killing off the Western ‘Cowboy’ is a great start.
Yippeee Kay-Yay...Mother F_____!
The West was a fairy tail, in actuality the “old west” was a 30 ish year period from the end of the civil war to just before the turn of the 20th century. I know about real cowboy culture they are known as vaqueros and they have fun cattle on this continent since the 1600s when Texas and the South West was Nuevo Espana since 1519 until Mexican independence in 1821. My extended family has run cattle on land granted from Phillip V since May of 1731 in South Texas continuously. We are in a very small group of some of the longest running cattle people in the North hemisphere. I was raised riding and roping and steering, now a days no one rides horses it’s all ATVs or SxS utes. I don’t buy store beef I have gotten half steers or quarters for 40+ years from the same land , organic you betcha , grass fed and never an antibiotic it doesn’t get more freen than that. Recently the ops have shifted to regenerative agriculture practices cattle are key to that as they make the manure needed as fertilizer. Goats and hogs are rotated for their unique skills of browse and rooting respectively. I think me and the beagles are eating steak tonight now I have been on the brain. Cheers
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