Who could have known that converting all of rural Ireland into one vast toilet bowl for the cattle industry would have consequences?
Embarrassed-Fault973 on
Biggest impact on species being pushed to the brink and biodiversity is probably the least impactful on our GDP – primary agriculture. Ireland is basically using most of its land surface a big cattle farm. Very little of it escapes intensive farming.
Just think it’s a bit of a distortion to link our economic growth to environmental degradation. Our very poor policy making and not really giving a shite about the environment is what defines it.
We also can’t have any kind of sane discussion about any of this as we define ourselves as a farming nation etc etc …
urmyleander on
But with all the dairy being dumped into streams will the wildlife not grow big and strong ? /s
Faithful-Llama-2210 on
>Nature in Ireland is in a “very poor” state with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, EU analysis has found.
The EEC were the people who encouraged us to develop the rural economy without consideration for the environment in the first place.
BarefootWallah on
If the State bought out highland Commonage, and just let it be, the environment would do very well in time. (Need to deal with rhododendron though).
Allowing our hills and mountains to be kept as barren wastelands, so sheep farmers can make a few euro, is mind boggling to me.
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Who could have known that converting all of rural Ireland into one vast toilet bowl for the cattle industry would have consequences?
Biggest impact on species being pushed to the brink and biodiversity is probably the least impactful on our GDP – primary agriculture. Ireland is basically using most of its land surface a big cattle farm. Very little of it escapes intensive farming.
Just think it’s a bit of a distortion to link our economic growth to environmental degradation. Our very poor policy making and not really giving a shite about the environment is what defines it.
We also can’t have any kind of sane discussion about any of this as we define ourselves as a farming nation etc etc …
But with all the dairy being dumped into streams will the wildlife not grow big and strong ? /s
>Nature in Ireland is in a “very poor” state with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, EU analysis has found.
The EEC were the people who encouraged us to develop the rural economy without consideration for the environment in the first place.
If the State bought out highland Commonage, and just let it be, the environment would do very well in time. (Need to deal with rhododendron though).
Allowing our hills and mountains to be kept as barren wastelands, so sheep farmers can make a few euro, is mind boggling to me.