Laws should be in place so that CEOs and others involved can be prosecuted and jailed.
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orchard
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It's just a joke at the moment mate. It really is.
As I’ve got older, have become more aware of the state we are leaving things for the next generation. It’s horrible. Have recently been considering switching careers to something more relevant to this.
orchard
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What, dumping raw sewage?
Seriously though, what would you do? Maybe it's me, but it's hard to think of a vocation that isn't systemically compromised. Even the chap who brought the successful action against Southern Water apparently had to go rogue. Monbiot himself proposes environmental solutions that require mass intensive manufacture of proteins (ultra high processed food) and therefore, like the vegan lobby, gain support from food manufacturers and supermarkets because the potential for profit and the barriers to entry from any competition would be ludicrously high.
Have you watched Planet of the Humans' above? Whilst far from perfect, it gives some illumination as to the state we're in when we're looking for technological fixes to our predicament.
Its quite remarkable. All they are required to do is to filter the lumps out, settle the fines out, then they pump the poisonous contaminated water straight in to the sea. You have to be absolutely insane to swim in any coastal waters around Britain and to be honest most places around the world now.
And also more insane to eat any of the sea food/fish...
orchard
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They obviously haven't invested sufficiently in the infrastructure. Just like your local council fly-tipping in fields 'cos they've got a lot on down the tip and cba.
Talking of which, quite a lot of the solids are being dumped on fields (with the farmer's consent!) but this may have to stop with the new ELMS thing, unless the water monopolies get some sort of exclusion iirc.
The system's FUBAR, but I wouldn't have random sludge with AB's and plastics ditched on my land.
orchard
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FFS:
Methane suppressants One area of innovation that urgently needs Government support is reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from cattle and sheep. Farmed ruminants (mainly cattle and sheep) emit methane equivalent to 22 MtCO2e/year, which is almost half of all UK agricultural emissions.15 Methane emissions can be reduced by: • Rearing fewer ruminants, therefore eating less meat. • Capturing the methane they emit, either by moving them inside or by attaching devices to them (both of which could harm their welfare).16 • Reducing the amount of methane each animal emits (methane inhibition). There are a number of technologies for methane inhibition in development, but only one is so far commercially available: a feed additive called 3NOP. This has been found to have no impact on milk production or quality in dairy cattle, but its effects are short-lived so it needs to be given regularly in animal feed.17 This makes it less practical for use in the kind of extensive grazing systems that are common in the UK. Other additives are currently in development, including a seaweed called Asparagopsis. Lab trials in Australia have found that adding 2% Asparagopsis cattle feed could reduce methane emissions by 99%.18 In the longer term, selective breeding and “methane vaccines” may also provide a solution, particularly for sheep which are fed almost entirely on grass. Investing in these technologies offers our best hope of decarbonising livestock farming without massively reducing the number of farms in the sector and the amount of meat we can eat.
Methane suppressants One area of innovation that urgently needs Government support is reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from cattle and sheep. Farmed ruminants (mainly cattle and sheep) emit methane equivalent to 22 MtCO2e/year, which is almost half of all UK agricultural emissions.15 Methane emissions can be reduced by: • Rearing fewer ruminants, therefore eating less meat. • Capturing the methane they emit, either by moving them inside or by attaching devices to them (both of which could harm their welfare).16 • Reducing the amount of methane each animal emits (methane inhibition). There are a number of technologies for methane inhibition in development, but only one is so far commercially available: a feed additive called 3NOP. This has been found to have no impact on milk production or quality in dairy cattle, but its effects are short-lived so it needs to be given regularly in animal feed.17 This makes it less practical for use in the kind of extensive grazing systems that are common in the UK. Other additives are currently in development, including a seaweed called Asparagopsis. Lab trials in Australia have found that adding 2% Asparagopsis cattle feed could reduce methane emissions by 99%.18 In the longer term, selective breeding and “methane vaccines” may also provide a solution, particularly for sheep which are fed almost entirely on grass. Investing in these technologies offers our best hope of decarbonising livestock farming without massively reducing the number of farms in the sector and the amount of meat we can eat.
These kind of events are only going to become more common and more severe
orchard
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Don't worry mate, we can keep on flying and burning oil as long as farmers stick their cattle in big sheds, harvest their food for them, manufacture stuff to stick on their arses and then burn it anyway. Oh, and create and mass manufacture ultra high processed alternatives to meat.
This reminds me so much of brexit and it's technological fixes that don't quite exist and have been ill thought out just to get an agenda over the line. Leave cows alone FFS, they have a natural ten year closed carbon cycle and play an essential role in sequestering carbon/increasing soil's organic matter naturally.
But seriously, shït needs to change, the whole West coast of the North American continent doesn't look too good either.
Car sharing is a great idea for Europe and high density areas. I'll buy up the cars you don't want/can't use, thank you.
orchard
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Private Eye get it, Biden gets it and provided millions of dollars to rectify it.
Our government? Seem quite happy with the environmental/welfare/bio-security and economic impact of truckloads of livestock travelling hundreds of miles to a stressful industrialised slaughter
Our government? Seem quite happy with the environmental/welfare/bio-security and economic impact of truckloads of livestock travelling hundreds of miles to a stressful industrialised slaughter
orchard
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CEO of Tesco KEN MURPHY: We found a billion tons of hidden food waste on farms... it must end
In a world where the urgent need to tackle climate change is clear, it is a shocking fact that 40 per cent of all the food grown on our planet goes uneaten.
More than four million square kilometres of land – roughly equivalent to the land mass of the Indian subcontinent – is used to grow this wasted food.
And when you calculate the resources used to farm that land, food wasted across the world can be held directly responsible for about four per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. This is the stark reality set out in a new report, Driven to Waste, published by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in partnership with Tesco.
It's been some time since the global levels of food wasted on farms have been quantified – and our report estimates that the total is an incredible one billion tons higher than previously thought.
Food waste on farms isn't just an issue for low-income countries, where industrial practices are still developing. Good food is being lost or wasted at farms on a vast scale in developed economies too.[...]
Seriously, why all this negative PR against farmers? Most of the waste is from supplying the likes of Tesco in the first place, where they insist rejected crops under contract are destroyed so they don't find their way into farmer's markets. And besides, it's not waste if it's fed to animals or composted.
Yeah, have a go at them for intensive husbandry, impoverished soil, poisoning the ecosystem, etc., but waste that's a direct result of your own policies?
NilSatisOptimum
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We are basically goosed. Even if we rectified all the damage we do to the environment overnight take a hundred or so years to start taking effect.
I don’t think so. The problem is that we’re not going to.
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