Stop the export of dairy and red meat.
Tane Harre
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According to the OECD the contribution of New Zealand's agricultural sector accounted for 49% of our climate change emissions in 2014. The highest share in the OECD. This is for a sector that accounts for 5% of our GDP.
Stopping the export of dairy and meat (no export in ten years) is the only way I can think of to meet this target and still remain out of recession. I have done some initial calculations here. They are incomplete, but I wonder whether the party should support this as a policy.
idiom axiom Wed 2 Aug 2017 1:07AM
Yus, so Cows are carbon Neutral. They get their carbon from the air and return it to the air.
Getting energy from the sun is exploiting an off-Earth resource. The Sun is not on Earth.
Tane Harre Wed 2 Aug 2017 1:39AM
Cows are not carbon neutral as much of the gas they output is methane. CH4 is 20x more effective as a GHG than CO2.
idiom axiom Mon 31 Jul 2017 10:13PM
Going to argue with the second law of thermodynamics?
The Earth is an open system innit. "Sustainability" means exploiting off-Earth resources instead of the more limited supply we have here.
Colin England Wed 2 Aug 2017 12:17AM
Going to argue with the second law of thermodynamics?
Nope.
But there's enough carbon on Earth to sustain life. Just needs energy and that comes from the sun.
"Sustainability" means exploiting off-Earth resources instead of the more limited supply we have here.
Even the off-Earth resources are limited and so current practices extended outwards from Earth would still be unsustainable.
And I'm all for mining the Moon.
idiom axiom Wed 2 Aug 2017 3:30AM
They also exhale shit tonnes of water vapour which will be the death of us all.
Tane Harre Wed 2 Aug 2017 5:19AM
Most of that would be covered by water in/water out. If they breathed in water and breathed out H2O2 then yes, it could be the death of us all but they don't so no need to worry.
Josh Rich · Wed 2 Aug 2017 12:47AM
Air (CO2) -> plants (Grass) to cows.