From the Daily Skeptic
Chris Morrison
Grow your own fruits and vegetables—and destroy the planet. Distributing produce has a “carbon” footprint six times greater than traditional farming, according to one study, valued by proud food-growing citizens around the world. recent papers publisher nature. The authors demand: “Measures must be taken to ensure urban agriculture supports rather than undermines urban decarbonization efforts.” What are these people smoking? Certainly not some of the claims circulating at New York’s Psychedelic Climate Week recently. Highlights include a discussion on funding ketamine-assisted treatment and a panel discussion on “Balancing Investments and Their Impact on Climate and Psychedelic Capital.”
The main author of the book nature The author of the paper is a scholar at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. They propose using urban farms as spaces for “education, recreation and community building”. Maybe locals could sit cross-legged and listen to early Pink Floyd. Maybe give Mother Atomic Heart a sunset shot. Sorry if your reporter can't take this paper seriously. This is a classic example of green plants targeting human activity (as almost any activity will do) and complaining that it causes the release of the demonic gas carbon dioxide. According to recent climate changes in New York, guardianrevelers were told that using hallucinogens could trigger a “shift in consciousness” that would inspire climate-friendly behaviour. What, one might ask, is climate-friendly behavior, given that almost everything humans do to improve the fate of the planet is demonized by an increasingly bizarre cult of millennial greenness?
author of the book nature Paper seems to have a special interest in home composting. Poorly managed compost is said to exacerbate the release of greenhouse gases (GHG). “When methane-producing anaerobic conditions persist in a compost pile, the carbon footprint of compost increases tenfold,” the report states. Apparently, this is especially common in small-scale composting processes. The author seems completely ignorant of how small-allocation farming works, and thus suggests that “cities can offset this risk through professional management of centralized composting operations.”
Everywhere these cultists look, they are releasing gases that are exacerbating the existential climate crisis they invented. We know that high application rates of compost in urban farming also produce nitrous oxide. Needless to say, “application schedules and fertilizer mixes may need to be strategically managed to minimize emissions”.
For an allotment man, there are few pleasures in life like taking a break from the hard work and having a hot cup of tea in the shed. Surrounded by the tools of the trade, it's the labor equivalent of passing on some live human beings during National Climate Week, with the added attraction that it doesn't turn you into a self-righteous chump. But that joy will end if the climate police have their way. We are told that infrastructure is the biggest driver of carbon emissions from so-called “low-tech” urban farming sites. In addition to the shed, beds (for vegetables, not cushions for the ketamine heads) and composting facilities are included. A raised bed built and used for five years has approximately four times the environmental impact of a raised bed that is twenty years old.
Plants need water, but only the right water can help save the planet. In field samples, the researchers found that most quota holders used municipal drinking water sources or groundwater wells. Of course, no, no, because such irrigation emits greenhouse gases from water extraction, water treatment, and distribution. Recommendation: “Cities should support low-carbon (and drought-conscious) irrigation for urban agriculture through subsidies for rainwater harvesting infrastructure or through established greywater use guidelines.” Presumably the subsidies will come from magic breadfruit and the infrastructure will It is a special type that does not produce greenhouse gases.
This crazy climate document is just the latest sign that the Green movement is riven by divisions, as its lies about the climate crisis begin to fall apart in the face of reality. Intermittent wind and solar have no realistic backup, and carbon capture is a huge and potentially dangerous waste of money. Without the use of hydrocarbons, humanity is doomed. Billions of people will die and society will return to the Dark Ages. Hydrocarbons are so ubiquitous in modern society that almost anything humans do to survive and thrive on a dangerous planet can be demonized. Finally, Sir David Attenborough made the shocking comment that it was “foolish” for the United Nations to send bags of flour to famine-stricken Ethiopia. Or read this tweet from UN contributor and University College London professor Bill McGuire earlier this year: The only “realistic way” to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown is to wipe out the population from a high-mortality pandemic.
Many green extremists seem to believe that anything humans do, including growing our own vegetables, causes existential harm to the planet. Some may conclude that what they really hate is humanity itself. There are high-pitched bongs all around.
Chris Morrison is daily skepticEnvironment editor.
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