GarethM

He=I We as a country are not the bad person!. So how would you like farmers to harvest crops ?, do you not think they are doing it efficiently especially as fertiliser and fuel is horrendously expensive. Think I saw something the other day on wheat Oz is 1ton to the acre, we do 4 ton with much much less inputs.

Yeah go check the registration of those trawlers, Edward they aren't local people.

Not in the UK though is it!. 1% global emissions, UK farming doesn't really use aquifers like in the USA for alfalfa. We use a small amount of river abstraction and tap water for greenhouse growing things like tomatoes. Control what you can control without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which is what your post suggests.

Think your reading far to much into my phrasing in arguments, I don't think there is a problem here and that's from my own experience of low input farming. What I question is the bin lid banging environmentalists that quote these sources and keep saying it's getting worse here and ideas keep becoming ever worse regulation and control of our daily life. Pick a particular thing and we can always go down the rabbit hole, but my argument is always here not in Tibet. Problem is the environmental types will never be satisfied even if we turned off everything at 3pm.

Because all you do is drag out these sources that say the end is neigh, and demand we need to do more. Whilst simultaneously saying back in your yoof it was an ecological wonderland of plenty, well use common sense and ask what's changed and obviously not for the better!. We implemented the environmental suggestions from the 50s onwards, which were to rebalance and rebuild the world for the better and they have done exactly the opposite according to your sources.

And good for you, believe whatever you wish. Drum up that business then, one day that sandwich board of doom mongering will be your downfall when people realise it's a hyped crock of sh1t.

I've said it before, avoid feeding birds too much as it creates a unsustainable population that effectively starves more birds. Feeding 5000 Vs 500, instead of foraging for weed seeds and grubs. You're parents might have given them scraps but not kilos. Cut all hedges back to under 5ft and make them thicker and dense by treating them mean, if you can see through a hedge it needs reducing.

Actually it was an estate up on rishworth moor I think, same as one of the wildlife trusts one with starving deer. Believe what you wish, read whatever biased give us more money articles you want. Reality is shooting estates are managed and maintained, they aren't sterile zoos.

Yet all this money those RSPB types spend on the reservation achieved very little. Yeah, like most shooting estates next to the RSPB found the shooting estates managed habitat had more species and controlled fox predators.

Obviously ignoring the car design quote then. "2020 Tesla Model 3 has a drag coefficient of 0.23, making it more aerodynamic than the 60s-era cars. The 60s cars generally had higher drag coefficients, often between 0.4 and 0.5. " Driving the same car since the 60s ?, nope didn't think so. Go drive a flat windscreen tractor you'll soon change your tune when it resembles a massacre. As usual the discussion doesn't fit your narrow end of the world Gretta narrative ergo end of discussion huh ?.

Didn't say flatter, I said more aerodynamic. Think it's drag coefficient that actually creates a protective film around the car as it moves. Bit like a vortex pump/Tesla turbine. Aerodynamics is one of the reasons the wheel hub thing stopped being a thing, streamlining I think they called it in the 40s.

I'm a part time farmer, I've got more wildlife, birds of prey in possibly 60+ years of having a family farm. More birds, bugs, badgers etc.

The last sentence, he's a commercial dive supervisor.

And what's changed in 10-20 years ?. Well, more environmental bs and making the country greener. You can if you wish argue car aerodynamics have improved if you wish, new cars are more fighter jet than flat glass on a landy.

New battery but fit an isolator or take a terminal off, old leylands always seem to have earth leakage even with almost non existent wiring resulting in dead batteries. Looks smaller than a 262. Just jump start it off the car, in the old days I even started an old Leyland with ride on lawnmower left running for 5 minutes.