Posted on 08/29/2022 3:31:00 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
onald Scully gazes at his herd of 208 cows munching grass and clover in a verdant field, as a light breeze ruffles the stillness.
“There is an enjoyment for me to come out and look and see how healthy and happy these cows are,” says Scully, 47, a third-generation dairy farmer. “Every single cow has her own personality, they’re all individuals.”
The pastoral scene in Ballyheyland, a landscape of rolling hills in County Laois, is replicated across rural Ireland. Ireland has 7.3 million cattle, substantially outnumbering humans, and a long history with the animal stretching into myth, including the Cattle Raid of Cooley, an epic tale considered the Irish Iliad. Agriculture dominated the economy well into the 20th century and moulded a vision of Ireland that still enchants visitors.
Cows, however, now symbolise something else: a climate crisis quandary.
Instead of cutting emissions, Ireland has continued increasing them and the biggest contributor is agriculture. Ireland’s 135,000 farms produce 37.5% of national emissions, the highest proportion in the European Union, and most of that comes from methane associated with belching by ruminant animals.
Under a new government plan, agriculture must reduce emissions by 25% by 2030. Other sectors face even higher targets – transport must reduce emissions by 50%, commercial and public buildings by 40% – but the loudest protests have come from farmers.
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How about everyone just say no and disobey those climate clowns.
Cull the politicians pushing this crap.
I’ll be thinking of the global climate change loonies when we’re eating the bark off of trees.
Bump!
When are the EuroChump peasants going to realize what the EU kleptocrats are up to, and deal with the situation?
Let’s propose a compromise: Cull one politician for each cow culled. Less CO2 (probably not) and less idiots (most certain).
Do it.
Please.
climate targets will be painted on the back of our heads next
When it is too late to do anything to stop it. Same with the U.S. of A.
That is the goal..
Carbon is us.
Right out of Klaus Schwab’s Nazi book of how to takeover the world using stupid/evil politicians
Can we just skip the year 2030? Seems like everyone’s got some dystopian 2030 goals.
When I started in the power business long ago, “emissions” meant sulfur dioxide, nitric oxides, and particulates. It is amazing how the green kooks have successfully gotten people to accept CO2 in the “emissions” category. They took true pollutants measured at the ppm level and then applied that to CO2 at the 18% level.
They moved to destroying food all of a sudden
CULL - plural of CILL, to c-i-l-l my landlord. - Eddie Murphy
bugs will be yummy when you are starving
“Irish farmers say they will be forced to cull cows to meet climate targets”
Simple question: Is Putin making them do this, or is their own government making them do this?
Cows are more valuable to the Irish people than climate nazi politicians.
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