Più dell’80% degli agricoltori britannici preoccupati per la crisi climatica che danneggiano il sostentamento, lo studio scopre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/02/farmers-climate-crisis-livelihood-extreme-weather-study
di Wagamaga
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More than 80% of UK farmers are worried that the “devastating” effect of the climate crisis could damage their ability to make a living, a study has found.
Farmers have warned that global heating risks Britain’s supplies of home-grown food amid wild swings in weather conditions, in new research carried out by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
The study found that 87% of farmers have experienced reduced productivity in the face of recent extreme weather, 84% had suffered a fall in crop yields, and more than three-quarters had taken a hit to their income.
The survey of 300 UK farmers found that, in the past five years, 78% of farmers had been hit by drought and more than half had suffered the consequences of heatwaves.
I know it’s not to everyone’s taste but Clarkson’s farm really made me appreciate the struggle of weather changes in farming and the general frustrations that farmers must feel.
I don’t know what can be done but my spending habits have slightly changed where I’ll look for British produce, buy wonky vegetables or go to a farm shop more often. I’ll even take my daughter to farms (the ones that have diversified into visiting attractions) rather than the cinema or something more “normal”, go lamb feeding or pumpkin picking etc.
It’s difficult when everyone is feeling the pinch to not go for the super cheap options but I’m worried what will happen if farms just completely collapse.
[Food is already more expensive because of climate change.](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423566-food-costs-more-because-of-climate-change-and-it-will-get-worse/)
Almost every crisis in the world is a different head of the water crisis hydra.
Refugee crisis
War in the Middle East
Food inflation
Wildfires
Militant oil nations (IE. Russia)
Biodiversity loss
Nobody wants to accept that the crisis has arrived. They just want to bitch that coffee is expensive.
And how many would support phasing out the most environmentally disastrous and inefficient forms of agriculture that are exacerbating these issues without providing much food?
Climate change *will* impact farmers. But has for millennia. And farmers have had to develop and change their crops and practises, as they have for millennia.
Well, they are now because it’s affecting them! I grew up in a farming area and farmers have gone out of their way to disparage the science and discredit scientists. Now they’re on a PR campaign to get more help. They’re very much reaping what they’ve sown.
Well it’s a good job we didn’t destroy all of the natural landscapes in Britain and turn it into monoculture farmland.
*of course, I’d be the first person to worry about falling fish stocks. I’m a fisherman! What am I going to do if there’s no fish left?… But at the same time… I am a fisherman… I’ve gotta kill all the fish, haven’ I?!*
Maybe they should protest about climate change like they did when 5% of the millionaires get inheritance taxed
Maybe they should stop fucking up the environment, then?
Selfish, entitled bellends. Farmers are responsible for 40% of waterways polution in the UK. That’s MORE than the shitty water companies. And don’t even get me started on animal agriculture.
You want to make a change? BE THE FUCKING CHANGE.
And stop supporting nonces like Clarkson and Fartrage who do NOT have your best interests at heart.
Consumers won’t be until they complain food gets even more expensive and even then the complaint is always about the price of food only, never about climate change. Look at cocoa as the prime example. Costs have shot up because climate change destroyed cocoa bean crops across the world, yet no one is seeing this as a wake-up call regarding food security in a world already being ravaged by climate change. People are just whinging that a Mars bar costs more for a smaller product. Climate change is a complicated issue and too many people cannot think laterally and understand how it will impact so many sectors around the world. People also want to deny that anything is wrong and that we are past the good years now, so they stick their head in the sand and insist everything is fine.