(14-10-2022, 11:01 AM)C_T_Russell Wrote: This article says it all very well...So in your argument the methane converts to CO2 which then a small percentage of it promotes pasture growth which feeds livestock who produce more methane from it. Your point was what?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/john-macdo...D5UPO5T3E/
And this, I already have a friend who sold his farm because it was uneconomic to upgrade to new regulations.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advo...2OV64HLSM/
All from a country that contributes 0.17% of global greenhouse gases, most of our emissions are carbon neutral, methane turns back to CO2 within 12 years and plants absorb back.
Farmers dont get to claim carbon credits from their pasture and for some stupid reason, NZ is not counting a great deal of our native bush in the south towards our carbon credits.
(19-10-2022, 12:30 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I think I would rather pay higher prices knowing it was about climate change mitigation, than lining the pockets of some anonymous middlemen...Essentially with our current emission levels we are bearing the emissions burden for producing a lot of exported food. Only fair to pass the costs of doing so onto those consumers. The more efficiently we produce the cheaper our goods will become to those who consume them. Taxation will drive that change.