Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers

• rah@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Orchards are very different from woodland. Trees need to be evenly planted and have much more space than woods. Probably better than nothing but it’s not the kind of CO2-sink woodland the CCC is talking about.

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• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am not good enough at this law

  Nor am I. But Do know pre Brexit the EU was funding actual wood land. That is a huge part of the issues farmers have now.

  The huge farm subsidies the EU provided were still not replaced or agreed to long after Brexit. I’m not sure if they ever were at all. But farmers were forced to change growing habits with no idea what the gov was going to support.

  It was a huge part of way £350m a week was an outright lie. Not only were we not actually sending that much due to discounts. We got a huge chunk back via farm subs.

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  • Serpent@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Still makes me cringe thinking about what we gave up.

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep. I’m likely older than you. (coincidently bang on the age where the stats placed our votes at 50/50 )

      So I was born a few years before we voted to join. And grew up watching most of the benefits becoming a part of UK life. And realise half my generation are fucking insane.

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