[Janelle Ward]

New Zealand is tackling climate change head on – as all governments should be – with a proposal to tax the greenhouse gasses that farm animals produce from burping and urinating.

The world-first scheme will see farmers pay for agricultural emissions in some form by 2025, the BBC reports.

It’s estimated that the country’s farming industry accounts for about half of its emissions.

But farmers are not happy. One lobby group says it would “rip the guts out of small-town New Zealand”.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says money raised from the proposed levy will be pumped back into the industry to finance new technologies, research and incentive payments for farmers.

“New Zealand’s farmers are set to be the first in the world to reduce agricultural emissions, positioning our biggest export market for the competitive advantage that brings in a world increasingly discerning about the provenance of their food,” she told reporters.

The pricing is yet to be decided on, but the government says farmers should be able to make up the cost of the levy by charging more for climate-friendly produce.

Would you be happy to pay a little more for products to do your bit in battling climate

[Sue Ridge]

“Would you be happy to pay a little more for products to do your bit in battling climate ”

No, we already have choices to pay more but there are cheaper alternatives for those who choose not to. Free range eggs are a prime example. This stupid tax will achieve nothing apart from causing people to pay more with no alternative at a time when the cost of living is already climbing with wages unable to keep up. New Zealand emits 0.09% of the world’s CO² emissions and it appears that their government is prepared to ruin their economy with no material effect on the rest of the world. Incidentally, the Australian government is in the same position trying to ruin the country to reduce our 1.4% CO² to zero.

[BigBadOzDave]

This is the epitome of the destruction to normal life that can be carried out by these climate zealots and idiot politicians like Jacinda Ardern … fer chrissakes – cows & sheep have been farting, burping and shitting on this planet since time immemorial, to no detrimental effect.
When are these climate idiots going to wake up to the fact that there is no climate crisis? … What is happening has been happening since time began, with the changing posture of the planet around its own axis, and there’s nothing mankind can do about it.
Life has continued on with all of the past changes of planetary inclination (I believe it happens every 67,000 years – but don’t quote me on that period) and, as we have lived through them in the past, we will live through this one.
You climate clowns should be grouped with the Flat Earthers and all other conspiracists that infect our Earth, and idiots like Jacinda Ardern and her fellow socialist naysayers, should all be put in a boat and pushed off the edge of your Flat Earth!

[Tood]

For the sake of the animals, no tax but a reduction in the rate people eat meat, more than 3 times a week is not necessary, good for the animals (the reduction/deletion in horrific factory farming), good for the health of people and better for the climate if that is in fact a solvable problem by humans. Easy to achieve but people are too selfish.

[desiree]

Does Jacinda Ardern ever keep up with the news around the world regarding cow emissions .
Csiro australia has been working with a seaweed.Our scientists have collaborated with Meat & Livestock Australia and James Cook University to develop a cost-effective seaweed feed ingredient called FutureFeed, which uses a type of seaweed, native to Australia that significantly reduces their methane emissions and has potential to increase livestock productivity.
In December 2020 FutureFeed was awarded the Food Planet Prize for its benefits to the climate and environment, while also having the potential to improve profits and livelihoods by opening up a new global industry in seaweed farming.
Im sure other countries are trying like a Germany entrepreneur which is using a compound of garlic and unripe bitter oranges and reducing up to 40 % in emissions.Its a cycle we are going through not climate change .The worse co2 in the world is the making of concrete .The carbon dioxide emissions from the production of concrete are so high that if concrete were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of CO2 behind China and the United States. Concrete is the most widely used artificial material in existence. The only thing we consume more of is water. Carbon dioxide emissions by business sector.So Jacinda think on that one.

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