Posted on 01/23/2020 6:14:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Northern Ireland's farmers must adapt along with others in the UK to help reach a key target on climate change, a government advisory body has said.
Suggestions include planting a fifth of UK farmland with trees.
Livestock numbers should be reduced, as should the consumption of beef and dairy, a new report suggests.
Its recommendations also include restoring peatlands, while the 13.6m tonnes of food thrown away in the UK every year should be cut by a fifth.
The recommendations are in the first report by the Committee on Climate Change on how the sector must adapt to help achieve a government target of net zero carbon by 2050.
The Committee on Climate Change said it wanted to see farming practices that were more productive, but would also help cut greenhouse gas emissions.
These included more careful use of fertilisers, better management of soils and adapting animal feeds to cut methane emissions from livestock.
The report suggests extensive tree planting could be funded by a levy on emitting industries like fossil fuel companies and airlines.
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Okay DOOMERS! As has been heard in Ireland before, “Fookin’ idjits!”
> Suggestions include planting a fifth of UK farmland with trees. Livestock numbers should be reduced... <
Wouldn’t it be easier to just kill off a fifth of UK farmers? But maybe that will come later.
Sounds like an overpopulation problem. The UK needs to close its borders to immigrants and allow its population to naturally reduce due to low birth rates.
Farmers, stop feeding the politicians.
I remember forty five years ago how farming magazines such as THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER were saying how farmers had to adjust for THE COMING ICE AGE!
Forty years later the same magazine was warning farmers to adjust to GLO-BULL WARMING!
After 60 years of taking that magazine I dropped them.
Absolutely necessary to kill 6 Billion people to accomplish what the climate freaks want to accomplish, as stated by the retarded child at Davos.
No fossil fuel use means reset to ~1800... Worldwide population of around 1b.
Believe this: They mean for you to die to create their utopia.
Worldwide famine seems to be the goal of the climate alarmists.
With the drastic loss of a fifth of the UK’s arable land, food production will decline. The farmers will be able to grow their own food, but city-dwellers will not.
Any laws that limit the sale of food ought to apply to government workers first. They are the useless eaters who come up with these disastrous policies.
If Liberals and Socialist really cared they would commit to a MASS Suicide event that would reduce the need for the use of Carbon.
SELF-Sacrifice is UNKNOWN to them. They want everyone else to do something and pay for it.
It is only one more week....... Brexit
All this nonsense will end or be tempered into insignificance
> They mean for you to die to create their utopia. <
Some people might think you’re exaggerating a bit there. But Greta Thunberg wasn’t kidding when she said that climate change deniers should be put up against a wall.
“ The recommendations are in the first report by the Committee on Climate Change on how the sector must adapt to help achieve a government target of net zero carbon by 2050.”
CO2 is a trace gas vital to all life on earth. At 400 parts per million it’s on the low side. More will be better for plant life on the planet, which is better for all animals as well.
CO2 is also a very weak “greenhouse gas’. 90% of the atmospheric driver of temperature is water vapor.
BOL!
Good luck with my distant Irish cousins, whose ancestors were not smart enough to leave and come to America, like mine did.
There are two kinds of people in this world, people who recognize that government is a necessary evil whose powers should therefore be limited, and those who want government to be a pyramid scheme with them at the top and therefore want government with unlimited powers.
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Once upon a time, environmental activists claimed that they wanted to save the planet for the children. Now they want to save the planet from the children.
The only way the Irish will control their own future is by making more Irish.
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