Extinction Rebellion and Farming

Treg

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
By using alot of the earth's precious resources.
A woman walked from Devon to Westminster to demand answers about Thomas Cook ( a Thomas Cook ex employee) surely climate activists should be doing the same.
 

Still Farming

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Mixed Farmer
Location
South Wales UK
By using alot of the earth's precious resources.
A woman walked from Devon to Westminster to demand answers about Thomas Cook ( a Thomas Cook ex employee) surely climate activists should be doing the same.
Be over the time they get there?
Plus detrimental effects as they got to buy food, eat, sleep,produce waste and resources getting there AND BACK anyhow?
 

Treg

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
What the world will be over by the time they walk from Devon to Westminster?
I thought they were just trying to scare the youth into action, hadn't realised things had got that bad , to be fair how long it takes depends on how straight a line you walk & from one of @Henarar s videos some of them would find a straight line difficult.
 

Ball acre

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Location
Somerset
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SteveHants

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Livestock Farmer
Couldn't have put it better. ^^^

When these kids ditch phones (smart or otherwise), iPads and computers, Xbox and plastic clothing, go to bed when the sun goes down (or use candles) and dig up mum's anicured concrete 'garden' to grow their own veg, I'll listen.
When they dump the latest four wheeled vehicle and WALK to skool, using just pencil and paper and real books to learn, I'll listen.

Until then it really is just hysterics with no direction. And as has been said is attracting all sorts of fringe loonies with their own very extreme and dangerous agendas.

Why should they? They are children, conditioned to believe that this is what "normality" looks like - they only have these things because their parents have provided them. They are driven to school at the insistence of their parents - my daughter walks to school. She's just turned 11. It isn't far, through a village, but she is more or less the only pupil allowed to walk on her own (she has secondary aged friends that walk the same way).

What they are asking for is systemic change, which is a farm more useful thing to focus on than trying to make themselves "holier than though" martyrs.

To move forwards environmentally, we don't have always look backwards - do "real" books (although I am far more fond of them than screens) use any less resources than electronic gadgets? A better question is "can we find a way to advance technology in a sustainable way?" - given the scale and the scope of our technological revolution, new answers should be waiting to be found.

As for what the world might look like if we are living more sustainably - I have no idea. I wonder if the predicted increase in AI (intelligence, not insemination) and the resultant lack of jobs (which is why governments are playing with the idea of a national wage) might force people to work less, which may well mean more veg is grown in community schemes etc.....
 

renewablejohn

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Location
lancs
I did my bit this morning even though it was pouring with rain . I have also downsized my car which does double the mileage. Any one running a VW Touareg think on View attachment 838734
Suppose this is your new straw delivery service

 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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