{"id":346870,"date":"2024-10-15T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346870"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:09:59","slug":"greens-declare-war-on-growing-your-own-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346870","title":{"rendered":"Greens Declare War on Growing Your Own Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grow your own fruit and veg \u2013 and destroy the planet. Allotment produce, much prized by proud food-growing citizens the world over, has six times the \u2018carbon\u2019 footprint of conventional agriculture, according to a recent paper<\/a> published by Nature<\/em>. \u201cSteps must be taken to ensure that urban agriculture supports, and does not undermine, urban decarbonisation efforts,\u201d demand the authors. What have these people been smoking? Surely not some of the puff circulating at the recent Psychedelic Climate Week in New York. Highlights included a discussion on funding ketamine-assisted therapy and a panel on \u2018Balancing Investing and Impact with Climate and Psychedelic Capital\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lead authors of the Nature<\/em> paper are academics working out of the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. They suggest using urban farms as sites for \u201ceducation, leisure and community building\u201d. Perhaps the locals could sit cross-legged and listen to early Pink Floyd music. Maybe clap the setting sun to some Atom Heart Mother. Excuse your correspondent if he cannot take this paper seriously. It is a classic example of greens picking on a human activity \u2013 almost any will do \u2013 and complaining that it causes the devil-gas carbon dioxide to be released. At the recent New York climate happening, according to the Guardian<\/em><\/a>, revellers were told that using hallucinogens can spark \u201cconsciousness shifts\u201d to inspire climate-friendly behaviour. What climate friendly behaviour, one might ask, given that almost anything humans do to improve their lot of Earth is demonised by an increasingly weird millenarian green cult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors of the Nature<\/em> paper seem to have a particular down on home composting. Poorly-managed composting is said to exacerbate the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs). \u201cThe carbon footprint of compost grows tenfold when methane-generated anaerobic conditions persist in compost piles,\u201d it says. This is particularly common during small-scale composting, apparently. With a seeming complete ignorance of how small allotments farming functions, the authors suggest that \u201ccities can offset this risk by centralising compost operations for professional management\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherever these cultists look, there are gases being released that are contributing to their invented existential climate crisis. The high application rates of compost in urban agriculture can also lead to nitrous oxide, we\u2019re told. Needless to say, \u201cstrategic management of application scheduling and fertiliser combinations may be required to minimise emissions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For allotment holders, few pleasures in life compare with a break from arduous work and a hot cup of tea in the shed. Surrounded by the tools of the trade, it is the labourer\u2019s equivalent of passing around a few liveners at National Climate Week, with the added attraction that it doesn\u2019t turn you into a self-important dope. But such pleasure will come to an end if the climate cops have their way. Infrastructure, we\u2019re told, is the largest driver of carbon emissions at what are termed \u201clow-tech\u201d urban agricultural sites. As well as sheds, this includes beds (for vegetables, not a crash pad for ketamine heads) and compost facilities. A raised bed built and used for five years will have approximately four times the environmental impact as one used for 20. Other infrastructure supplies are said to include fertiliser, gasoline and weed block textile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plants need water, but only the right sort of water can help save the planet. In their site samples, the researchers found that most allotment-holders use potable municipal water sources or groundwater wells. Big no, no, of course, since such irrigation emits GHGs from pumping, water treatment and distribution. \u201cCities should support low-carbon (and drought-conscious) irrigation for urban agriculture via subsidies for rainwater catchment infrastructure, or through established guidelines for greywater use,\u201d it is suggested. Presumably, the subsidies will come from the magic bread tree and the infrastructure will be of the special type that does not produce GHGs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This crackpot climate paper is just the latest sign that the green movement is riven with disagreements as its climate crisis grift starts to fall apart in the face of reality. There are no realistic back-ups for intermittent wind and solar, while carbon capture is a colossal and potentially dangerous<\/a> waste of money. Without hydrocarbon use, humankind is doomed. Billions will die and society will be returned to the dark ages. Hydrocarbons are ubiquitous in modern society, and so almost everything that humans do to survive and thrive on a dangerous planet can be demonised. Eventually, you end up with Sir David Attenborough making the appalling observation<\/a> that it was \u201cbarmy\u201d for the United Nations to send bags of flour to famine-stricken Ethiopia. Or to read earlier this year the tweet from the United Nations contributing author and UCL professor Bill McGuire that the only \u201crealistic way<\/a>\u201d to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown was to cull the human population with a high fatality pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many green extremists seem to take the view that anything humans do, including growing their own veg, is causing existential harm to the planet. What they really hate, some may conclude, are humans themselves. Treble bongs all round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the <\/em>Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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