Farming & the Green Agenda
Farmers have a somewhat legitimate beef with governments.
But it is not about the government declaring that the current way of farming is contributing to negative climate change. The allegation is correct. And modern farming must change its ways to minimize its carbon footprint.
And this is so, even if it is negatively affecting the bottom line of the small private, and large conglomerate, private businesses of farming. We can only effectively combat increasing negative climate change by steps that are going to cost dollars.
So......how is their beef correct?
It has to do with equality of application.
Farmers legitimately ask: "Why only us?"
But what farmers should be demanding, is that governments apply the same green agenda to all other sectors of economic activity. If they would demand this, and get the governments to take on the heavyweights of economic activity, we'd soon make good progress combatting negative climate change.
And if the farmers would make this new demand, they would deserve the support of the public, and the thanks of the public for forcing governments to do what they are reluctant to do........fight with the big guys....instead they pretend to make progress by fighting with the little guys.
Bob A (Anthropogenicist)
Farmers have a somewhat legitimate beef with governments.
But it is not about the government declaring that the current way of farming is contributing to negative climate change. The allegation is correct. And modern farming must change its ways to minimize its carbon footprint.
And this is so, even if it is negatively affecting the bottom line of the small private, and large conglomerate, private businesses of farming. We can only effectively combat increasing negative climate change by steps that are going to cost dollars.
So......how is their beef correct?
It has to do with equality of application.
Farmers legitimately ask: "Why only us?"
But what farmers should be demanding, is that governments apply the same green agenda to all other sectors of economic activity. If they would demand this, and get the governments to take on the heavyweights of economic activity, we'd soon make good progress combatting negative climate change.
And if the farmers would make this new demand, they would deserve the support of the public, and the thanks of the public for forcing governments to do what they are reluctant to do........fight with the big guys....instead they pretend to make progress by fighting with the little guys.
Bob A (Anthropogenicist)
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