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<blockquote data-quote="egbert" data-source="post: 7658518" data-attributes="member: 9965"><p>sorry you're not getting the response you might want.</p><p>We're being bludgeoned day after day in the media, -see tomorrows dimblbey food policy statements.</p><p></p><p>Growing trees to store carbon (or whatever it is you're wanting them to grab) sounds good, but the trees grow, die, and rot in just a few decades.</p><p>(forget the mighty 1000 year oak....oaks reach their max carbon level in the UK at about 100...after that they rot off as much as they gain each year)</p><p>Grass grabs as much.</p><p>By comparison, CO2 from burning fossil fuel was lying safe underground for 350 million years til we came along.</p><p></p><p>We, as a body, are coming to terms with the ideas being put upon us as a conscience salving lot of hokum, and are often pretty short in our response.</p><p></p><p> As farmers, we're doing what we have evolved into the most sensible way of gropwing food on what dirt we have, albeit being pushed and pulled by gov policy and supermarket dominance.</p><p>The idea of planting trees wholesale to save the world is hugely contrary to us, and we can see the crash that it precipitates.</p><p>(Happily, I'm almost without scruples, and have little problem with the crash in itself)</p><p></p><p>So please don't think we're Rsoles. We're just sick of hearing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="egbert, post: 7658518, member: 9965"] sorry you're not getting the response you might want. We're being bludgeoned day after day in the media, -see tomorrows dimblbey food policy statements. Growing trees to store carbon (or whatever it is you're wanting them to grab) sounds good, but the trees grow, die, and rot in just a few decades. (forget the mighty 1000 year oak....oaks reach their max carbon level in the UK at about 100...after that they rot off as much as they gain each year) Grass grabs as much. By comparison, CO2 from burning fossil fuel was lying safe underground for 350 million years til we came along. We, as a body, are coming to terms with the ideas being put upon us as a conscience salving lot of hokum, and are often pretty short in our response. As farmers, we're doing what we have evolved into the most sensible way of gropwing food on what dirt we have, albeit being pushed and pulled by gov policy and supermarket dominance. The idea of planting trees wholesale to save the world is hugely contrary to us, and we can see the crash that it precipitates. (Happily, I'm almost without scruples, and have little problem with the crash in itself) So please don't think we're Rsoles. We're just sick of hearing it. [/QUOTE]
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