Essay by Eric Worrall

… In the context of development progress, animals like cows, goats, camels, and pigs should be seen as “solutions with legs” …

Climate policies must not write off livestock

Cattle when grazed sustainably can be part of climate action and help vulnerable populations build resilience.

Ali Mohamed Climate Envoy in the Office of the President of Kenya

Livestock are a vital component of both the African food system and rural livelihoods. Africa has around 400 million cattle alone, and the livestock sector accounts for a significant 30 to 40 percent of the total agricultural gross domestic product across the continent.

Small amounts of meat, milk and eggs can have life-changing benefits in tackling malnutrition, and livestock animals also provide a reliable income source when alternatives simply do not readily exist.

Yet, from an environmental perspective, livestock are often perceived only as a problem, contributing to habitat loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and land degradation. This narrow view misses a much more nuanced reality. It is also the reason much-needed finance is not being invested in the sector.

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In the context of development progress, animals like cows, goats, camels, and pigs should be seen as “solutions with legs” in combatting these intensifying climate and environmental crises at scale.

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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/21/climate-policies-must-not-write-off-livestock

While there are plenty of places cattle are grazed which could also be used for growing vegetables, cattle farming is also viable in places where vegetables simply shrivel up and die.

Grazing also improves grassland health – grasslands need to be grazed. Ecologists once believed the opposite, that grazing degrades grassland and increases the risk of desertification. This wildly wrong belief led to the slaughter of over 40,000 elephants – before one of the ecologists who helped organise the slaughter realised to his horror it was all a big mistake.

There are other considerations. On Monday this week a medical specialist I see for an annual checkup told me I had to eat more meat, his advice was I had to replace most of the carbohydrates in my diet with meat. Vegetables are mostly carbohydrates, so I have to cut back on vegetables, particularly starchy vegetables like Potatoes.

There are plenty of other people in my situation.

Reducing meat in the global diet would create a lot of sick people and, in time, a lot of prematurely dead people.

But who knows, maybe some greens see quietly killing off the hundreds of millions of people who medically require meat rich diets as a milestone towards their goal to reduce global population.

By Jo Nova

For some reason more than a thousand whales, dolphins and porpoises died around the UK’s coastline every year for the last eight years. This is roughly twice as many as in the 25 years before that. What could it be?

Whatever it is, it isn’t windfarms. Greenpeace says so:

“There is no evidence whatsoever linking offshore wind to whale deaths. The manufactured hysteria is the result of fake news promoted by politicians, big oil, and their cronies to save the oil and gas industry”

Greenpeace Australia says  wind-plants save whales.:

…”building offshore wind is way, way better for ocean wildlife than fossil fuels”.

And yet there are a thousand dead cetaceans.

Andrew Montford of NetZeroWatch graphed beached dolphins, whales and porpoises against the rise of a new industrial marine machine:

Cetacean Strandings in the UK graphed against offshore wind capacity. @Dissentient

There’s no evidence, say Greenpeace, sounding just like Philip Morris.

We don’t know for sure what is causing so many whales and dolphins to die, but Greenpeace doesn’t even want to find out. The only thing we know for sure is that Greenpeace is craven, counterfeit, eco-imposter front for Big Business, or the Globalist Blob. As Matt Ridley said what happened to the Precautionary Principle?

Jason Endfield is tracking the carnage:

The UK’s 2023 annual report to Ascobans* reveals an appalling level of cetacean deaths in British seas, and comes in the wake of record-breaking increases in whale, dolphin and porpoise mortality in recent years. This shocking statistic should be a wake-up call to those planning to further industrialise our seas …

Researchers have known since at least 2013 that pile drivers were permanently deafening porpoises, leaving them, presumably to die miserable deaths wandering blindly through dark or murky seas. Where were all the professors of marine science, paid by the public to know these things, and where was the BBC?

They were all silent for ten years until someone invented and tested “bubble curtains” to protect porpoises, and then they could say “well isn’t that clever”?

Spread the word: fifty years ago environmentalists would have raised hell about a thousand dead whales and dolphins. Today they are a part of the cover up. They’re not even blaming climate change and 0.001 degree of warming. They don’t want to draw attention…

h/t Willie Soon.