“Livestock farming ranks with the fossil fuel industry as one of the two most destructive industries on Earth. …The govt’s CCC estimates that switching from grassland to woodland in England would eventually “increase the soil carbon stock by 25 tonnes of carbon per hectare eventually” #soilcarbon
1. This week’s column is about something we badly want to believe, regardless of the evidence: that livestock farms are benign and harmonious. Why? Mostly, I think, because it chimes with books and cartoons we see as very young children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Also: a thread
A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot