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Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 9273928" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>All crops are now dependent on chemicals to achieve the yields needed to feed the over population. One by one the chemicals are being banned by people who don’t understand or trust technology but instead have a misplaced faith in a benevolent Mother Nature who they think will sort everything out if only we’d cut her enough slack. Our leaders being classically educated, not educated in sciences and technology have a deep mistrust of anything technological, preferring instead to rely on a romantic view of rural affairs, hence the policy of leaving it all to nature, rewilding etc. Well it could work but not in the way they expect. Mother Nature will not feed 70 million people. Bird strips and pollinator mix will not do the work of genius and targetted pesticides with a better safety record than anything that went before them. What we have at present is an abdication of responsibility to supply and support the ever increasing population : an increase that no politician even comments on.</p><p>At village and local economy level we’d be in deep trouble. Crop and economic failure on an unprecedented level. Wastage and shortage of home produced supply while we grow flowers and birdseed. I’ve probably lost £20k on my OSR this year and wheat growing too suffers as a result of now very limited break crops.</p><p>I just see what’s in front of me. Declining real economic output. A rural economy evermore dependent on taxpayer handouts. Reliance on imports grown using the chemicals they banned here. Let’s hope it’s all worth it in the end but honestly I have serious doubts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 9273928, member: 2119"] All crops are now dependent on chemicals to achieve the yields needed to feed the over population. One by one the chemicals are being banned by people who don’t understand or trust technology but instead have a misplaced faith in a benevolent Mother Nature who they think will sort everything out if only we’d cut her enough slack. Our leaders being classically educated, not educated in sciences and technology have a deep mistrust of anything technological, preferring instead to rely on a romantic view of rural affairs, hence the policy of leaving it all to nature, rewilding etc. Well it could work but not in the way they expect. Mother Nature will not feed 70 million people. Bird strips and pollinator mix will not do the work of genius and targetted pesticides with a better safety record than anything that went before them. What we have at present is an abdication of responsibility to supply and support the ever increasing population : an increase that no politician even comments on. At village and local economy level we’d be in deep trouble. Crop and economic failure on an unprecedented level. Wastage and shortage of home produced supply while we grow flowers and birdseed. I’ve probably lost £20k on my OSR this year and wheat growing too suffers as a result of now very limited break crops. I just see what’s in front of me. Declining real economic output. A rural economy evermore dependent on taxpayer handouts. Reliance on imports grown using the chemicals they banned here. Let’s hope it’s all worth it in the end but honestly I have serious doubts. [/QUOTE]
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