O/T Farmers

[frogmiller]

There was coverage on both the evening news and radio in the UK, albeit very limited. The reality is that broadcasters typically have a 30 minute evening news slot and have to make editorial decisions upon which stories to feature. Farmer's protests are nothing new and, with the greatest of respect, pale into insignificance when compared with other things that are going on in in the world at the moment.

Net zero means what it says - net zero CO2 production from human activity.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 0.041% not 0.4%, but it was only about 0.029% at the start of the industrial revolution. The effects of that change can already be seen and they are accelerating. I don't see addressing that as a waste of money. I don't think our kids will see it that way either.

If course it is the richest people who create the most CO2 - it's the residents of developed countries who drive, fly and 'consume'. The tragedy is that it will be the poorest people in the world who will suffer the most at the outset as countries that are very sensitive to drought, heat waves and tropical storms become increasingly difficult to live in.

You're right 0.041 which is effecting all of the climate changes. But in the Netherlands it was a Nitrogen problem that made the government there force their farmers into culling livestock and reducing the output by 10%. It was that that started protesting in Europe.

[frogmiller]

You're right 0.041 which is effecting all of the climate changes. But in the Netherlands it was a Nitrogen problem that made the government there force their farmers into culling livestock and reducing the output by 10%. It was that that started protesting in Europe.

But the lessons from banning nitrogen hasn't been learnt. The catastrophic events in the Shri Lanka economy, the starving, the riots and the suffering that has brought a rich exporting economy of a country to its knees and is something that could happen everywhere.