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Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy ?
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<blockquote data-quote="hendrebc" data-source="post: 7565101" data-attributes="member: 70166"><p>Still haven't read it yet. But I will say I have no problems with being paid to store carbon in my soils. But I won't be doing it for a one off payment and an agreement to hold it there for X amount of time. If you want me to store your carbon so you can keep polluting then it will be a regular payment on my terms. If it disappears naturally, which it can as carbon is liquid in soils and changes all the time, then it's not my problem. It can't come back on the farmers when it does change through no fault of their own. If you plough it all up then fair enough, but of farmers are going to be penalised when/if this carbon they agree to store goes away then the whole scheme will be a disaster waiting to happen. Just wait till you have to buy back more credits to cover what is missing and you will wish you had never heard of carbon credits. And I bet the ones you have to buy to replace it will be more expensive than what you were given in the first place. </p><p>That's why I say it's a trap. Big business isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart to help us. </p><p>What really pisses me off is that all this won't make a sh!t of a difference to the climate because the big polluting companies get to keep polluting. They just throw some money around and pretend it's all gone away. It hasn't! But they get to look to their customers and feel good about it but nothing has actually changed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hendrebc, post: 7565101, member: 70166"] Still haven't read it yet. But I will say I have no problems with being paid to store carbon in my soils. But I won't be doing it for a one off payment and an agreement to hold it there for X amount of time. If you want me to store your carbon so you can keep polluting then it will be a regular payment on my terms. If it disappears naturally, which it can as carbon is liquid in soils and changes all the time, then it's not my problem. It can't come back on the farmers when it does change through no fault of their own. If you plough it all up then fair enough, but of farmers are going to be penalised when/if this carbon they agree to store goes away then the whole scheme will be a disaster waiting to happen. Just wait till you have to buy back more credits to cover what is missing and you will wish you had never heard of carbon credits. And I bet the ones you have to buy to replace it will be more expensive than what you were given in the first place. That's why I say it's a trap. Big business isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart to help us. What really pisses me off is that all this won't make a sh!t of a difference to the climate because the big polluting companies get to keep polluting. They just throw some money around and pretend it's all gone away. It hasn't! But they get to look to their customers and feel good about it but nothing has actually changed. [/QUOTE]
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