'kin BBC and climate change.

[primmiemoo]

Why are so many trees being cut down . I drive around and see big trees cit down on a daily basis. No one seems to care

Chopping down urban trees is a huge scandal. Money driven, no doubt.

This won't be a popular thing to suggest, I know, but why do so many who farm over-trim their hedges? Letting trees grow to maturity within a mixed growth stage hedge removes the threat of losing farmable land to woodland or forestry.
Who cares if it's "untidy"?

 

[milkloss]

Why are so many trees being cut down . I drive around and see big trees cit down on a daily basis. No one seems to care

Most of that is likely H&S rubbish (I actually said boolocks!) we’ve all grown to love. Makes the world go round: jobs for the boys.

Every lad round here wants to be a tree surgeon/ wood boy.

 

[kp_n_plghng]

There's absolutely loads of field boundaries where hedges and trees could be planted (without making fields smaller). Seems some grant money for that might make sense. Perhaps if you had enough hedgerows and trees on your farm that go towards a calculation which offsets your emissions allowing you to qualify for a scheme to sell low carbon produce.

 

[delilah]

It's fine for us all to be letting off steam on here, but it is the wider public we should be engaging with, the NFU, AHDB et al seem incapable of doing it on our behalf so we have to do it ourselves. Many on here will have facebook etc, use it to get your message across to your customers.
www.facebook.com/wyecf

 

[lim x]

Its not just about the fuel for the journey of aircraft that should be taken into consideration but also the carbon infrastructure of the airport is massive to actually get that aircraft into flight, and people travelling to board the plane. How many people would actually take the journey at all, if flying was not such a frivolity? How many people would travel by bus or train if the flight was not available, or hybrid car.

Plus all the unnecessary, whimsical freight coming into the country, shipped to warehouses and then supermarkets and courier distribution. The courier companies have expanded massively over the last few years to distribute mainly useless junk, which will more than likely end up at the local tip or dumped in our gateways

 

[manhill]

Its not just about the fuel for the journey of aircraft that should be taken into consideration but also the carbon infrastructure of the airport is massive to actually get that aircraft into flight, and people travelling to board the plane. How many people would actually take the journey at all, if flying was not such a frivolity? How many people would travel by bus or train if the flight was not available, or hybrid car.

Plus all the unnecessary, whimsical freight coming into the country, shipped to warehouses and then supermarkets and courier distribution. The courier companies have expanded massively over the last few years to distribute mainly useless junk, which will more than likely end up at the local tip or dumped in our gateways

Couriers and post office carriers mean each parcel doesn't require an individual car journey to the depot. Whether it's junk to be collected is maybe not seen in that light by the addressee.

 

[lim x]

Couriers and post office carriers mean each parcel doesn't require an individual car journey to the depot. Whether it's junk to be collected is maybe not seen in that light by the addressee.

Yes, I agree that a courier is best to deliver numerous packages. But what I am trying to explain (probably not very well) all these packages have a carbon footprint as does a joint of beef...both are a lifestyle choice but again Beef is the item chosen by the BBC lefties, who seem to hate the countryside and farming, slandering us with statistics that go unchallenged.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Chopping down urban trees is a huge scandal. Money driven, no doubt.

This won't be a popular thing to suggest, I know, but why do so many who farm over-trim their hedges? Letting trees grow to maturity within a mixed growth stage hedge removes the threat of losing farmable land to woodland or forestry.
Who cares if it's "untidy"?

Whilst no doubt more trees could be allowed to mature in hedgerows, allowing a hedge to grow to maturity actually reduces biodiversity I understood. Having varying stages of maturity necessitates laying or felling a hedge, which can become very labour intensive.

However I have let some hedges up with a view to a sustainable source of firewood.

 

[manhill]

The environmentalists would have us believe that re-wilding will be the answer to all our woes. Don't fancy wood bark, thistle and grass stew myself. I prefer the security that livestock and crops provide, at least until I develop a taste for cockroaches and crickets.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Whilst no doubt more trees could be allowed to mature in hedgerows, allowing a hedge to grow to maturity actually reduces biodiversity I understood. Having varying stages of maturity necessitates laying or felling a hedge, which can become very labour intensive.

However I have let some hedges up with a view to a sustainable source of firewood.

I was sure I had heard that there is more biodiversity in a hedge that is allowed to grow into line of trees, except when they start to get over mature and die, where as a hedge if looked after will last for ever. So in the medium term letting it mature is better. Not sure who is right?

 

[Farmer_Joe]

What about 737's using 750 gallons of fuel per hour then? Not as popular as blaming cows farting is it ?

its crazy all i think about is stuff like planes and sending good half way around world when they start having a go at livestock...

 

[upnortheast]

Found my self at the same table as a bloke who was vegan to "save the planet" Gave him a blast of the value of livestock farming.
On the back foot he started bragging about the holiday he had just booked - 3 hours in the car to the airport then 5 hours on a 737.
He didn`t get it

 

[slackjawedyokel]

The way I see it the problem is that there are too many people on the planet; just by being here we use resources and damage the place. Veggies and vegans may get a warm, evangelising glow that they’re saving the planet, but the way I see it that’s like taking the moral high ground because you only kicked someone 99 times in the head, not 100 times.

 

[michael N123]

X

 

[manhill]

When all the world's food has run out, I hope Vegans are first choice on the menu. Yum, yum !

 

[Hilly]

When all the world's food has run out, I hope Vegans are first choice on the menu. Yum, yum !

Just be a heap of under nourished bones , kak

 

[manhill]

Do carnivores suffer much from diabetes type 2, I wonder?

 

[Dman2]

Does anyone know of any fact based evidence to say that cows etc are not to blame for greenhouse gasses
I would like to put this evidence onto social media
Get it shared around, so that we are putting our side across

 

[upnortheast]

Does anyone know of any fact based evidence to say that cows etc are not to blame for greenhouse gasses

Local accountant has been retweeting some research here - https://twitter.com/AW_ARobinson?lang=en-gb

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Does anyone know of any fact based evidence to say that cows etc are not to blame for greenhouse gasses
I would like to put this evidence onto social media
Get it shared around, so that we are putting our side across