To be clelar for anyone just skimming the article… It’s UK Farmers.
I guess they could have had more support if they didn’t Brexit…
Do you think the UK sometimes sits up late at night with a bottle of whisky and stalks the EU on social media?
Pretty embarrassing when they accidentally like a 200 year old post with bikini pics.
200 year old post with bikini pics.
Bikini? Don’t you mean ankle pics?
Ahh. Those foxy ankle daguerreotypes.
Mr Stanley said farms were facing “an existential moment” because of the changing climate, which could put many out of business, reducing UK food security.
“The problem that we’re facing is that weather is becoming so extreme that it is overwhelming our ability as farmers to continue to grow crops at all in some places,” he said.
Yes, but let’s not lose sight of what’s really important, by sacrificing the planet we’ve successfully prevented a few billionaires from having to sell their yachts.
While I’m not saying the farmer quote shares this belief but it’s hard to take when there have been so many “farmers protests” about changes to subsidies linked to reducing emissions and planting more trees
There was a Climate Town video that explains how the US tried to institute strict emissions standards in the mid to late 90s. Exceptions were given to all work trucks because it would make them too expensive for small farms. This led to car companies leaning into that form factor, and now the Yank Tanks are ubiquitous and infecting the rest of the world.
Vehicles over a certain weight can be exempt for a farm vehicle like a suburban. Also the longer the wheelbase the less fuel economy the vehicle has to have, which is why manufacturers are making larger SUVs that can’t even pass the moose test.
I think many farmers are being played for fools. They are being astroturfed by big agri businesses run by corporate billionaires.
Yeah we just had a huge protest here in France, except for a smaller union they all agreed that the pesky ecologists were to blame for their problems. And the government was more than willing to agree with them, better kill our remaining farming land for short term profit than reign in their buddies at Nestlé and Danone.
I’m with you, but it’s not even about having to sell their yachts. These leeches have so much goddamn money that they could lose most of it with no materiel impact to their lifestyle. They just horde it out of a combination of addiction and lust for power.
Won’t anyone think of the shareholders??
Blame it on Biden. Oh, wait, it’s the UK. So, yeah Republicans will still blame Biden
And they want to put solar farms on the fields that grow food.
That’s a really interesting article. I didn’t know there were so many benefits to solar panels over crops.
However, I don’t see how growing crops under panels could become widespread.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimate that if just 1 million acres of farmland was covered in solar panels, the nation would meet its renewable energy goals.
For reference, Iowa alone has over 35 million acres of farmland. Solar panels are almost too efficient to cover a meaningful amount of farmland.
Iowa, eh. You could plant some trees as windbreak to stop erosion. Wide enough apart to still drive harvesters through, dense enough to provide shade.
This entire concept has been studied extensively in China, and the conclusion has been that the yield is vastly overclaimed when solar panels are deployed on productive soil.
See: CCTV exposes 8 million RMB solar farm built on prime farmland, leads to plummeting rice yields
You’ll excuse me if I don’t believe a PRC source posted on lemmy.ml.
Lol, this is funny for now but it’s gonna become a real problem eventually.
Your claim is that… China has incentive to reduce deployments of solar panels by criticizing the deployment of solar panels over agricultural land? We’re talking about the same China, right? World leader in solar panel production, being criticized by American and European leaders for overcapacity in solar panel production? I just want to make sure we’re on the same page here.
My claim is that I don’t see any reason to believe a PRC news source.
Your claim is that a PRC news source wants people to deploy less solar panels.
No, my claim is a PRC news source is not trustworthy.
If you want to show me a source that discusses this issue from a media outlet that isn’t state-controlled, feel free to do so and I will read it.
I do not give my time to state-controlled media.
As a matter of course I don’t trust things that China says.
What’s the incentive structure for which China would want people to deploy fewer solar panels?
There are crops that do well in shade you know.
There are also crops that do well in Siberia, but this is prime agricultural land.
But not high yield crops.
