Posted on 08/03/2022 10:52:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The climate deal reached last week by Senate Democrats could reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that American farmers produce by expanding programs that help accumulate carbon in soil, fund climate-focused research and lower the abundant methane emissions that come from cows.
The bill includes more than $20 billion to improve the agriculture sector’s impact on the environment, mostly by expanding existing U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that help farmers change to better practices. Farmers would be paid to improve the health of their soil, withstand extreme weather and protect their land if the bill is enacted.
The funding would expand programs favored by both environmental groups and the agricultural sector, said Ben Thomas, who focuses on agriculture at the Environmental Defense Fund.
“They are voluntary, they are incentive-based, they get results in terms of implementing conservation practices on working lands,” said Thomas. “It’s great to see.”
Thomas said historically, the agricultural sector has not aggressively tackled its contribution to climate change, but that hesitation has shifted in recent years and more money will accelerate progress. There’s a lot of potential, he said.
“It is worth taking very, very seriously,” Thomas said.
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Paying farmers to work less.
Expanding the welfare state.
The end goal is no food for the peasants.
We well on our way to Holodomor, and the vast majority are clueless.
Leftist global climate speak for “Get wrecked!”
Eat more bugs and 3D printed meat and synthetic foods.
The great Liberal Hoax continues on......
Bull crap
oil & gas
farming
who is next on their hit list?
Really, the BS that comes from AP is on a different level.
Small business, because they generally vote republican and employ the most people. They are slow adapters of wokism, unlike big corporations.
ALLEGED climate emergency. 😵🐎💩 The day the climate stops changing will be a bad day.
The evidence for carbon, in general, being harmful is nonexistent.
I presume the same is true for methane (a hydrocarbon)?
Lysenkoism, pure and simple. It will have the same result today as it had for Stalin, mass starvation.
Ammonia is tied directly to natural gas and with the disruption to the gas industry, fertilizer cannot be produced at a high enough rate.
Ask Sri Lanka how those “better practices” are working out.
Let’s see:
You are a dairy farmer or a beef rancher.
Your Dad did the same
Your Grand Dad did the same
Your Great Grand Dad did the same.
It is in your blood & it represents the sum of all your assets-—including YOUR KNOWLEDGE of how to raise such successfully-———
And Biden wants you to quit the only thing you know & leave your land fallow.
Can Anyone say DUST BOWL????
This planet is a carbon-based planet.
The others rotating around our sun are not habitable——
SO how is everything we have done for CENTURIES suddenly wrong???
NONE of these ivory tower “EXPERTS” have a clue where their food & other items come from.
Culling the herds like in Europe will not be far behind (if that isn’t buried in the bill somewhere). Prices for food will rise again and bugs will be on some people’s menu.
Senate Democrats should go outside and give us a demonstration on how they plan to control the Weather
By rights, the millions of defecating and belching bison that ranged America’s prairies should have brought on global warming centuries ago.
So is the notion that mankind has an impact.
If they truly believed their theme, they would do something about India and China placing ONE NEW COAL FIRED PLANT ON-LINE EVERY WEEK!
“help farmers aid the environment”
Translation: hurt farmers, hurt consumers, and not help the environment
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