Making the news today....

[GarethM]

Why is it always Monbiot always being the virtue signalling arse. He's like the older aged version of Owen Jones, hark the next tragedy whilst at the same time being completely two faced.

 

Another prime example of why not to read the Guardian, leave the publication alone until they're homeless begging on Oxford Circus.

[coppice cutter]

He's been getting a good old (and well deserved) kicking over on the farming forum.

 

Enjoy!

 

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/moonbat-now-after-woodburners.382643/

 

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves | George Monbiot | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Wood burners are awful for the environment and flood our homes with toxins, too. I wish I’d known that in 2008, says...

 

 

hmmm 🤨

It is almost a carbon copy (pun intended) of this article from several years ago - at least he is 'recycling' his articles rather than doing any 'new' work over the festive period: 

Wood burners triple harmful indoor air pollution, study finds | Air pollution | The Guardian

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Exclusive: Burners should be sold with health warnings, say scientists who found tiny particles flooding into rooms

 

[GarethM]

Well half the stuff I hear he's written is mostly recycled provocative trash, maybe it's actually a fake picture with articles written by AI.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

34 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

He's been getting a good old (and well deserved) kicking over on the farming forum.

 

Enjoy!

 

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/moonbat-now-after-woodburners.382643/

 

 

That well known and widely acclaimed academic resource - the farming forum.....  😂

 

Between 1970 and 2013, 56% of species in the UK declined.

 

The biggest impact on UK wildlife has been the intensification of agriculture.

Agriculture accounts for over 70% of land use in the UK, but the environmental damage we have suffered while inside the current Common Agricultural Policy has been significant.

 

Soil health has deteriorated.

 

Numbers of farmland bird species such as the grey partridge, tree sparrow, skylark, linnet and yellowhammer have dropped.

 

Precious UK habitats have been eroded.

 

Intensive farming has resulted in the loss of flower meadows, hedgerows and trees – all of which are vital habitats for pollinating insects such as bees, with knock-on effects for species further up the food chain.

 

5 threats to UK wildlife | WWF

WWW.WWF.ORG.UK

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We’re losing our incredible wildlife at an alarming rate. We need to act quickly to restore nature. Here we look at 5 threats to...

 

[GarethM]

I'd believe the farming forum over that load of farm manure.

[MattyF]

Whilst I half agree with Kevin, monbiot seems to wish the last part of non intensive agriculture is replaced with rewilding .. if there is any rewilding it needs to start in the low lands not in the wilds… I actually can not stand monbiot myself. 

[Rob D]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves | George Monbiot | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Wood burners are awful for the environment and flood our homes with toxins, too. I wish I’d known that in 2008, says...

 

 

hmmm 🤨

 

 

Virtue signalling and mis information all in a clickbait title. Mankind has sat around fires from when he found fire - it's in our DNA and part of our heritage. I don't mind Monibot and do watch him on youtube now and again but this is nonsense.

 

[Doug Tait]

Rob mentions what seemed to me to be the most salient point from the comments on the farming forum, namely mankind has burned wood to survive forever, should be a basic right to burn wood for heat.

[coppice cutter]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

That well known and widely acclaimed academic resource - the farming forum.....  😂

 

Between 1970 and 2013, 56% of species in the UK declined.

 

The biggest impact on UK wildlife has been the intensification of agriculture.

Agriculture accounts for over 70% of land use in the UK, but the environmental damage we have suffered while inside the current Common Agricultural Policy has been significant.

 

Soil health has deteriorated.

 

Numbers of farmland bird species such as the grey partridge, tree sparrow, skylark, linnet and yellowhammer have dropped.

 

Precious UK habitats have been eroded.

 

Intensive farming has resulted in the loss of flower meadows, hedgerows and trees – all of which are vital habitats for pollinating insects such as bees, with knock-on effects for species further up the food chain.

 

5 threats to UK wildlife | WWF

WWW.WWF.ORG.UK

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We’re losing our incredible wildlife at an alarming rate. We need to act quickly to restore nature. Here we look at 5 threats to...

 

So there's a problem.

 

Do you have a solution or are you just going to sit in your ivory tower and blame 'the farmers' like everyone else does?

 

Personally, I haven't used chemical fertiliser for over 10 years, most of the land is now down to permanent pasture, and the only weeds I kill are the thistles which the sheep won't touch and I spot spray with a knapsack using approximately 200ml per year of a chemical which the EU banned from being used in a knapsack and would prefer I sprayed the entire field with killing everything other than than the grass itself.

 

I farm like this because I think it's the right way to farm, I've few financial responsibilities any more, and they can't threaten me with taking my farm payments away because I don't claim anything from the b@stards.

 

However, I'm not going to point the finger accusingly at anyone farming 'conventionally' because many of them are younger, have financial responsibilities, and what consumers, including yourself no doubt,  pay for their food simply would not sustain my farming practices to be scaled up across the land.

 

I wish it would change but all I ever see is gurning, griping, and sniping from people like yourself (and George f**king Monbiot!), and never see any positive input about how to change it.

 

Far too easy to accuse when you've no skin in the game.

 

*edit* - for clarification, I farm grade one arable lowland, not upland.

Edited December 29, 2022 by coppice cutter