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- Derbys/Bucks.
Has Dr Mark Carney just signalled a new golden opportunity for land managers and possibly farmers) to manage corporations carbon off-setting? Or Has he just underpinned the financial value of land?
Reith lectures -Mark Carney
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The bloke's an idiot. If he says there's a golden opportunity for land managers and possibly farmers I'd be very worried..........
And WTF are " land managers " anyway ?
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Fxxking land agents
There's your clue.
Heard the first two lectures and the sort of top-down nonsense you would expect from someone with his CV. He thinks corporations are part of the solution. They're not.
- Location
- East Dartmoor, Devon
A carbon tax is a better option IMO, off setting just allows polluters to carry on polluting.
It would be a good solution if an actual grown-up was in charge of it rather than politicians responding to the utter bollox the media shovels.
serf
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- warwickshire
1k an acre it is then
, cos what ever he murmurs 180° in opp direction is what happens, at least he is a good barometer on what to do as long as you do the opposite. 
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
He was reading from Greta's address to them and then linking how positive funding can change things. Load of baloney. DEFRA here want to kill off and over regulate the livestock sector. Local food networks should help but try opening local small abattoirs and on-farm slaughtering and walking your cow to market these days
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- fakenham-norfolk
Carney is remembered by myself as being the most biased Governar of the BE,came across as a champange socialist,who reads the Gruniad for breakfast.He also predicted doom & gloom for the economy of our country.
lazy farmer
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How’s that going ?
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- Derbys/Bucks.
Is that 1k/year or 1k for the 30 year 'contract'?1k an acre it is then
For me if it was 1k/year my landlord would be after a big slice of the action. If it was a 30 year contract my landlord would want to be in control of all the action.
Basically, farmers options may be limited. Landowner options a bit more scope, until you realise that the green carbon friendly corporations will have a significant hold over future land use
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
They're on one big gravy boat round trip just like Christine Lagarde - I thought she was about to get arrested and charged for something only a while back?
serf
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- warwickshire
I was referring to you saying price of land to be underpinned by his comments , I was sarcastically meaning the price of land 1k an acre to buy , tounge in cheek 
, tounge in cheek
serf
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- warwickshire
Yep , take ur pick out of 8BN people , and Osbourne chose that ! Great , bring back merv
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- North Somerset.
Am I alone on thinking that the whole carbon credits and off setting thing is a stack of cards much like derivatives and sub prime mortgages that no one really understands but as long as the big boys are making money it doesnt matter?
He is a graduate who went through the Goldman Sachs graduate scheme, which trains up our future lord and masters!!.
Gov of BofE job description as laid out by Osbourne: must be able to
a) state the bleeding obvious
b) do nowt while pontificating regularly in such a way as to spook the markets as much as possible.