In some cases the maize crop yield has doubled once trees have been planted. Wow!
This comes from a BBC headline report today. Wow!
What amazes me is that here we are churning out various chemical fertilisers when simply planting a few trees around a field would do the same trick - and we would amazingly help the environment in the process.
What is our problem? We have such a pathetic attitude to nature, our daily existence and the future and to all intents and purposes we are in purposeful, knowledgeable and willing self-destruct mode. Nuclear power stations, CO2 capture and storage systems and chemical fertiliser are only three of the thousands of mind-boggling and stupid things that humans see as the answer to the future - why, why, why?
Why build nuclear power stations and then watch what happens in Japan and before at Chernobyl? Why capture and store enormous quantities of C02 Gas underground when we should try to stop producing it in the first place? C02 under our feet is one immediate recipe for disaster. Earthquake, leak, ........ where is your house?
And now this latest. We force farmers to use fertiliser (also a common ingredient for terrorists) when a few trees dotted around a field would do the same job.
Although perhaps the trees would get in the way of the combine harvester .......... grrrrr.
Farmers should not receive subsidies for growing certain crops as predetermined by some continental bureaucrat, they should receive a subsidy or tax break based upon the number of trees they have on their land per square meter in proportion to the land turned over to crop usage. Crop fields should be rotated with grazing areas to allow the land to lie fallow at periods, crops should be pointed towards healthy food production with a lessened subsidy towards those farmers who sell to fast food joints and farmers should stop spraying our foods with chemicals. Pests, insects, my a...e! There are numerous ways to ward off pests; scarecrows work wonders with crows as I'm sure raising the leaves off the ground of strawberry plants does for slugs.
Sadly we operate to the principle of anything to reduce cost and maximise profits. Planting trees or changing the coal-fired power station to a windmill farm is not an option but purely the ramblings of a scary, self-obsessed, government-hating, hippy-minded, out-of-touch wildlife geek who has no proper grasp of reality on world affairs nor sees the bigger picture of how to feed the masses and cope with life in the 21st Century.
Nope, guess I don't really understand all that. So go ahead guys and continue to do all those weird and peculiar things that seriously look like recipes for disaster and I will now keep my little ol' trap shut.
As many people now say it is not a matter of 'if' the world will end but 'when'! Yet still we do nothing about it. Oops, there I go again!
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