Today’s Crikey “Rooted” article:
“The federal governments Emission Trading Scheme will once again sacrifice our Australian farmers, at the alter of political expediencies.
Forcing our farmers away from food and fibre production into Trees for no net benefit to global climate is as foolish as using ceral grains to make bio-fuels.
There are many who argue that if the full Carbon life cycle were taken into consideration then Australian Agriculture would be at worst a neutral, if not a net sequester of Greenhouse gases.
However we will not know if thats the case until the science catches up and the world carbon accounting recognizes the full carbon cycle of Agriculture.
As the Garnaut report states:
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