What are YOU doing to mitigate against Climate Change?

Doing your bit

  • Yes, I am doing everything I can

    Votes: 8 4.3%
  • Yes, I have changed a few things

    Votes: 45 24.2%
  • Yes but very minor

    Votes: 49 26.3%
  • Changed nothing

    Votes: 77 41.4%
  • No, I have made it a bit worse

    Votes: 5 2.7%
  • No, I have changed a lot

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Total voters
    186
Not at all selfish.

Well its an interesting discussion to have. Is it actually selfish? For all you know your carbon footprint could be bigger than mine - does that make you less selfish than me if you reduce yours a little?

If you promise that you will never fly again and you don't use an oil boiler then you can call me selfish
 
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Bit of a problem with the forecast of sea levels rising.

I think it's about a 10 millmetres per year. I did calculate it out once since the height of the last Ice Age it's been about the same amount for 25,000 years (Estimated values).

Sea levels were 250 metres lower when Ice was 1km thick over both hemispheres.

250 metres rise over 25,000 years is 10mm a year.

NASA currently say the trend is about 3.3mm a year.

Also the more it warms the more the absorbs the warming. FWIW the IPCC never come out with doomesday hysteria - the media do
 
I am pretty sure the powers that be are most concerned about the planet, after all people dying of famine helps the situation.

Actually famine doesn't help at all.

I bring you back to the Matt Ridley/ Bjorn Lomborg school of thought backed with statistics. The less worried you are about famine etc the less kids you have
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
Well its an interesting discussion to have. Is it actually selfish? For all you know your carbon footprint could be bigger than mine - does that make you less selfish than me if you reduce yours a little?

If you promise that you will never fly again and you don't use an oil boiler then you can call me selfish
No oil boiler here wood grown on the farm,havnt flown ,for 35 years , and no plans too.
farm is all grass at this moment as well no arable .

youre selfish (y)
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Going to give up all my outlying fields and buy a nice ring fenced 500 ac block with farmhouse and yard plum in the middle with no public roads nearby.
Greta would help me buy that to save the planet wouldnt she?
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Actually famine doesn't help at all.

I bring you back to the Matt Ridley/ Bjorn Lomborg school of thought backed with statistics. The less worried you are about famine etc the less kids you have

I am not sure that is correct.
At present we have the lowest ever birth rate since records began and I haven't noticed any one starving yet in this country.
What does of course make the greatest difference would be to reduce the population in the world, however at present everything is being done to keep more people alive. Malaria vaccine will make a massive difference to the population in the world.
Covid has reduced the numbers but has mostly done that be accelerating the rate at which the elderly or infirm have left the planet.

Famine still reduces the numbers in parts of Africa but not in many other areas. There is of course still starvation due to wars and lack of infrastructure and desertification.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 77 43.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 34.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.2%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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