Are farmers emitting more greenhouse gases than they sequester ?
Ive tried posting several times now but keep deleting it. I'm struggling with the whole concept and my initial rage. My first response is "who ****ing cares!!!" We are only emitting carbon in pursuit of one of what I think is one of the few excusable endeavours that should be allowed free reign to burn fossil fuels and emit carbon. I guess if all your city food comes from a store and no carbon is emittted in its production it must appear there magically and we are nothing more than a burden on the rest of the world. I've farmed long enough to know it's a tough game and you better be fairly efficient or you won't be around long. I've seen many come and go. Meanwhile I have had occasion to visit a few cities and I always wonder to myself " what do all these people do here" Go to Any store and and watch what people leave with. Big screen Tvs, camping equipment, clothes they will grow out of, home furnishings, coffee cups, exercise equipment they will never use, electronics to no end, etc. Etc. Etc. And then there's the coffeee shops that they frequent two or three times a day , ( incidentally I think Tim Horton should have to pick pick up all his coffee cups that I see laying alll over). It makes my blood boil at the mere suggestion that we as farmers require some "social licence". If it wasn't such an costly endeavour to keep a farm financially viable I would do what some have suggested and let the bastards starve. I'll shut up now and sit in my corner and be a good little farmer and pay my carbon taxes that will be squandered on nothing
Ive tried posting several times now but keep deleting it. I'm struggling with the whole concept and my initial rage. My first response is "who ****ing cares!!!" We are only emitting carbon in pursuit of one of what I think is one of the few excusable endeavours that should be allowed free reign to burn fossil fuels and emit carbon. I guess if all your city food comes from a store and no carbon is emittted in its production it must appear there magically and we are nothing more than a burden on the rest of the world. I've farmed long enough to know it's a tough game and you better be fairly efficient or you won't be around long. I've seen many come and go. Meanwhile I have had occasion to visit a few cities and I always wonder to myself " what do all these people do here" Go to Any store and and watch what people leave with. Big screen Tvs, camping equipment, clothes they will grow out of, home furnishings, coffee cups, exercise equipment they will never use, electronics to no end, etc. Etc. Etc. And then there's the coffeee shops that they frequent two or three times a day , ( incidentally I think Tim Horton should have to pick pick up all his coffee cups that I see laying alll over). It makes my blood boil at the mere suggestion that we as farmers require some "social licence". If it wasn't such an costly endeavour to keep a farm financially viable I would do what some have suggested and let the bastards starve. I'll shut up now and sit in my corner and be a good little farmer and pay my carbon taxes that will be squandered on nothing
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