Convert 50% of farmland to nature

[quattro]

I see a scientist is saying we should convert 50% back to woodland and natural habitat

 

[Gong Farmer]

I see a scientist is saying we should convert 50% back to woodland and natural habitat

Recognising that the hunter-gatherer way of life is best for the planet? Hope these areas are well stocked.

 

[quattro]

Recognising that the hunter-gatherer way of life is best for the planet? Hope these areas are well stocked.

He did quote reducing cattle and sheep no’s by 90%
also he is a vegetarian

 

[Hindsight]

Convert half of UK farmland to nature, urges top scientist

New woodlands and wild places are needed to fight climate crisis and improve people’s health

www.theguardian.com

 

[Will Blackburn]

He did quote reducing cattle and sheep no’s by 90%
also he is a vegetarian

That's going to be quite a feast!

 

[Farmer Roy]

Sounds like a good plan

you are far more likely to die of obesity or diabetes or heart disease than anything else

about 120,000 people die annually from war, but 1.5 million from diabetes. . .

we consume about 3 x the calories required, we waste about 30% of food produced & obesity is the biggest health problem there is

you are more likely to die from obesity related illness than you are from starvation

“feeding the world” is a sh!t mantra you’ve all unquestionably swallowed without thinking about it

sh!t - if someone was to pay me to rewild / go back to nature, I’d never go near another tractor ever again

FFS

 

[Farmer Roy]

Food is over produced & under valued

every second post on TFF is people whinging about that very fact

reducing production seems a no brainer

 

[JP1]

Professor Ian Boyd, immediate past Chief Scientific Advisor at DEFRA. He’s history but his legacy of all the little policy wonk disciples won’t be

 

[primmiemoo]

Has he seen the maps showing predictions for sea level rise? Bearing in mind they're worst case scenario and not to be taken as definite outcomes, they still give cause for concern.

A century isn't that long. Plant trees, or allow wilding without consideration for food production even 30 years ahead, and it will be his children and grandchildren, or his siblings' children and grandchildren who will suffer.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I think 50% of scientists should be converted to farmers.....

But then scientists gave us BSE by reducing the rendering temperature.
It was following scientists advice that gave us anthelmintic resistance.
It was scientists who poisoned us with DDT and OP's.
It was Pirbright that gave us F & M.

Perhaps we should just keep 'em locked in their laboratories.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Food security / feed the world - it’s just bulls**t you’ve swallowed

 

[unlacedgecko]

Food security / feed the world - it’s just bullpoo you’ve swallowed

I don't care about either. I just wanna be rich ?

 

[bluebell]

and the building of thousands and thousands of new houses goes on and on , many on farmland, dosnt anyone notice or care about this ?

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Has he seen the maps showing predictions for sea level rise? Bearing in mind they're worst case scenario and not to be taken as definite outcomes, they still give cause for concern.

A century isn't that long. Plant trees, or allow wilding without consideration for food production even 30 years ahead, and it will be his children and grandchildren, or his siblings' children and grandchildren who will suffer.

It wouldn't take long to turn forested / re wilded land bank into very fertile productive land should? ! the need arise.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

It's funny how he managed to jump so smoothly from DEFRA to the board of CaSE isn't it? I'm sure that CaSE's institutional members, which include Boeing and Airbus amongst them, are more than happy with his verbal diarrhoea that lets them off the hook and points the finger at others.

 

[spin cycle]

half of uk farmland producing 20% of the food is quite a stat

 

[melted welly]

I see a scientist is saying we should convert 50% back to woodland and natural habitat

so how would that work in Scotland then I wonder? Think we’re only about 15% farmland as it is

 

[Farmer Roy]

and the building of thousands and thousands of new houses goes on and on , many on farmland, dosnt anyone notice or care about this ?

it’s farmers who are selling that land isn’t it ?

 

[primmiemoo]

It wouldn't take long to turn forested / re wilded land bank into very fertile productive land should? ! the need arise.

Depends on person power, and speed of rise in sea level. Will our successors have the means to do all that?

One thing's for certain, millions of people will need to be living on, and growing food on floating platforms.

 

[JP1]

What is nature ?

Farming is basically manipulating “nature” - in a way I like

Sitka forests seem absolutely sterile and barren

“Re-wilding” will mean it just gets covered in scrub

If it’s “managed” nature - what does that entail in terms of human intervention