This is a book..... ......

Clive

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Arable Farmer
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......... that should be compulsory reading for every farmer, farm worker, agronomist, politician and input supplier

In fact it should be compulsory for any human being that eats to read

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Re...651731&s=gateway&sprefix=griwing+a+rev&sr=8-1


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DRC

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Much better book imo. More recent and really makes clear just what we are heading towards if changes isn’t made fast. However it also outlines the solutions and is very positive........ if we get on with it !
Should that change involve not taking unnecessary flights or driving bigger engined cars that use more fuel. Indeed much of the consumerism that we all enjoy. Or is saving the planet selective?
 

Goweresque

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Location
North Wilts
There's always someone telling that the world will come to an end unless you do what they tell you to. And it usually involves them making more money somehow, book to sell, research grants, well paid sinecures, positions of power etc etc, funny that.

50 years ago the world's population was out of control and we were all going to die from starvation, then it was an Ice Age that would kill us all, then Peak Oil, then we were going to all die from Acid Rain, then AIDS, then Global Warming, which magically became Climate Change about 10 years ago. There was Bird Flu, Ebola and the Millennium Bug in there somewhere as well, and I'll have missed plenty of others.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. HL Mencken 1918
 

Clive

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Should that change involve not taking unnecessary flights or driving bigger engined cars that use more fuel. Indeed much of the consumerism that we all enjoy. Or is saving the planet selective?

Probably you are right

But I think mankind being unable to feed itself is actualy a much bigger problem and more clear / present danger than global warming
 

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