Posted on 04/12/2015 12:37:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Conventional agriculture is causing enormous environmental damage in Germany, warns a study by the country’s Federal Environment Agency, saying a transition to organic farming and stricter regulation is urgently needed. EurActiv Germany reports.
Spanning over 50% of the country, agriculture takes up by far the biggest amount of land in the country, and is one of its most important economic sectors. But intensive farming still harms the environment to an alarming extent, according to a study conducted by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The use of pesticides and fertilizers, as well as intensive animal husbandry, have a negative impact on humans and nature, the 40-page document indicates. […]
One of the most controversial issues concerns greenhouse gas emissions. According to the researchers, the use of moors and clear-cutting for agriculture, as well as fertilizers, soil cultivation and animal husbandry produce a high level of emissions that impact the climate. In 2012, agriculture-related emissions were around 70 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent—about 7.5% of the year’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This means that after industry, which made up 84%, agriculture was the second largest emitter in Germany. …
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Ban Food Now!!!
lol
Nonsense. What they are saying is the Government wants total control. Nonsense. Since when has the Government solved anything, said their work is done, and closed the agency responsible for it? Name one time.
More of the Global Warming hysteria. This cancer on the low scientific masses is descending on food production. Its effects will be worse than Global Warming. It will cause reduced food production and starvation. This is just the answer for the Zero Population Growth wackos.
Let them eat cake!
There’s an old saying in Iowa: Don’t criticize the farmer with your mouth full.
IOW, better buy food from, say, the Soviet Union, oops, I mean Russia. Thanks Olog-hai.
I guess if AGW is going to kill me, I would rather die with a full stomach.
You’ve gotta die of something. Might as well be tasty.
First as tragedy... then as farce.
A warmer earth would mean lusher vegetation and stuff.. just look at rain forests. “Greenhouse gasses”, seriously what do we do in greenhouses?? We grow things!!
Stalin would be proud of the coming famine.
Our own EPA will similarly declare. And soon.
For two reasons: one, the left’s never-ending need to CONTROL. Everything. Every aspect of our lives. Iron-fisted CONTROL.
And two, because the agricultural (nearly synonymous with rural) demographic in America is one of the biggest and most important strongholds of conservatism, and they wish to strike it a blow.
We’re already seeing the opening shots, with a Department of Agriculture initiative to de-emphasize meat production, an EPA striving to gain control of EVERY body of water in the nation (including farm ponds), ...
“There’s an old saying in Iowa: Don’t criticize the farmer with your mouth full.”
Speaking of Iowa; there’s a huge dead zone of algae in the Gulf starting just off the mouth of the Mississippi. Cause is primarily due to ethanol waste draining into the Mississippi River. Ethanol; another government gone bad - that we will never be able to get rid of....
Commies and Nazis know all you have to do to kill something is poke a hole in it somewhere vital or stop feeding it.
Both are horrible but starving seems less so.
Actually, scientist have determine that dying is the number cause of death.
Actually, scientist have determined that dying is the number one cause of death.
Ban all agriculture in Germany and don’t let them buy any agricultural products from the USA. The Germans aren’t that smart after all.
Private property.
The horror...
There’s about 3,000,000 million tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and that amounts to a paltry ~400 ppm.
70 million tons won’t make much of a dent.
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