British environmental activist George Monbiot: “It’s by far and away the greatest cause of habitat destruction, the greatest cause of wildlife loss, the greatest cause of extinction, greatest cause of soil loss, greatest source of fresh water use. It’s one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown, bigger than transport.” …
“We need to act as drastically within that sector as any other sector to prevent the collapse of our life support systems and what that means, above all else, is getting out of livestock farming is really shutting down animal farming altogether, because that has massively disproportionate impacts on the living planet, and we need to switch towards other sources of food plant-based diets which are far more efficient, far lower environmental impacts.”
“It’s a bit like leaving fossil fuels in the ground unless we do that. We’ve really got very little chance indeed of preventing this domino effect of system collapse right across systems which basically makes the planet uninhabitable. So eating meat and milk and eggs is an indulgence we cannot afford.”
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
On Ireland state-run TV – RTE – Prime Time program – July 19, 2022 – Miriam O’Callaghan
Rough Transcript:
RTE Host Miriam O’Callaghan: George has a big emphasis on agriculture and how agriculture needs to cut its emissions. And I know it’s an issue you feel very strongly about. You’ve said that agriculture is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth. Explain and do you still believe that George?
British environmental activist George Monbiot: “It’s by far and away the greatest cause of habitat destruction, the greatest cause of wildlife loss, the greatest cause of extinction, greatest cause of soil loss, greatest source of fresh water use. It’s one of the greatest causes of climate breakdown, bigger than transport. One of the primary causes of water pollution and of air pollution. So it’s right at the top. Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot to say land use, the biggest issue of all it’s by far and away the greatest form of land use that humans inflict on the planet which means all that land is land. which can’t be used for wild ecosystems.
And well, obviously, we need farming, we need to minimize those impacts. We need to act as drastically within that sector as any other sector to prevent the collapse of our life support systems and what that means, above all else, is getting out of livestock farming is really shutting down animal farming altogether, because that has massively disproportionate impacts on the living planet, and we need to switch towards other sources of food plant-based diets which are far more efficient, far lower environmental impacts. But also switch out of farming altogether to produce protein-rich foods, which we can do through precision fermentation – brewing microbes.
RTE Host Miriam O’Callaghan: I can hear farmers all over the small country of ours, shocked and perhaps screaming at their televisions because they say are you saying all animal farming in your opinion, really needs to stop?
Monbiot: Yes, it does. It really does. It’s a bit like leaving fossil fuels in the ground unless we do that. We’ve really got very little chance indeed of preventing this domino effect of system collapse right across systems which basically makes the planet uninhabitable. So eating meat and milk and eggs is an indulgence we cannot afford.”
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There were 60 Million bison roaming the the great plains of the US 150 years ago. But somehow we are to believe cows pose a unique threat to the environment. pic.twitter.com/ksikT8s867
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ironically, for decades the big environmental scare was that food production would collapse
the catastrophe has become the plan
Monbiot is wrong about many things. He does not have a foundational understanding of the conservation laws. Even fermentation systems must have matter and energy inputs.
His statement about the bovines and ecosystems further belies his ignorance. For example, there were tens of millions of American bison roaming North America not that long ago. These bovines were part of a thriving ecosystem before governments decided to end it.
It’s amazing how such educated people can be so incredibly stupid
There’s usually only a limited amount of damage that can be
done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly
monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.”– Thomas Sowell
h/t David Elstrom
I doubt George Monbiot has anything more than an average IQ.
He is probably just the mouthpiece for some globalist elite cabal that may include high IQ individuals that desire to bring the western world to its knees.
Why intelligent people wish to decrease the world population and spread hunger, disease, and misery in the process is beyond me.
If I were in the position of the elitists, I would want to expand space exploration and seek to exploit the resources of the solar system so that we don’t have to dig up the Earth so much.
Moonbat jumped the shark years ago. He is insane.
You obviously know nothing about how to be a proper sociopath, Brad. You’re going to have to work on that. Maybe take some lessons.
😉
I suppose I do need lessons. Maybe I could get an apprenticeship at the WEF.
Why not send the elites out into space to investigate the resources available.
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and reached the outside of the solar system in 2012, 35 years later, so by the time they return they could be 70 years older.
Good luck and good riddance.
Ark B?
+1. And …
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
– George Orwell
Difficult to add to that.
The only positive thing to say, is that Monbiot has so soiled his underwear about global warming that he now actually supports nuclear power.
I guess we take our blessings, whatever.
They miss spelled Moonbat or dumbass either or.
Education doesn’t equal wisdom.
The question is, “Is his stupidity a result of his malicious Malthusian mind, or is it the other way around?”.
I’d also have to guess that he’s never been to (or even seen on TV) the vast plains of East and South Africa, aka the Serengeti. What is the dominant mammalian life form in these habitats? You got it – bovines, aka even toed ungulates! By this Moonbat clown’s thinking (or lack of) the Serengeti should have turned into a wasteland devoid of life ages ago….
Actually, most of those animals roaming Africa are antelope. Also ungulates, but not bovines.
Au contraire. All African antelope species are within the family, Bovidae.
They also happen to fall within the clade, Ungulata, being hoofed.
The Well known Cape Buffalo, as well as the Wildebeest and the tiny Dik Dik, are all related to that Guernsey cow, which provided the cream for my coffee.
Whales are also considered ungulates, but that’s another story.
Not only that, but there are waste products that have to be dealt with.
Actually it was more: 50-100 million bison. And This Monboit a$$hole is exactly like the US policy to exterminate the bison, with the purpose being to decimate the native American Indian population as bison was their main raw material, not just food.
https://medium.com/@davbunnell/once-there-were-50-to-100-million-buffalo-they-were-the-most-numerous-large-mammals-to-ever-exist-e01a5bca9ed8
This Monboit idiot’s idea echos the main purpose of the climate cult, which is to decimate the entire human population by destroying it’s raw materials, food, energy, etc. And it’s been able to brainwash stupid people into thinking that supporting this outright evil plan, is actually “saving the world”.
‘Monbiot is wrong about many things’
You are being far too kind there.
If the predicted crisis doesn’t happen, then we need to create one, so that our predictions are correct…says the dedicated environmentalists.
Sorry, but I have to say it: MOOOO!!
Regards,
Bob
I like Dairy Cows…they’re Outstanding in their Field
Don’t milk the puns, Bryan…
We can make a good start that I would wholeheartedly support by eliminating the production of corn based ethanol in the USA and ethanol imports from any other countries.
Even from Scotland?
I knew a guy at NREL who used to say, “drink the best, burn the rest.”
Anyway, I enjoy a nice whisky, whiskey, cognac, etc., from time to time. But really, as a chemist, I can whip up something that tastes good and is effective for a fraction of the cost.
A synthetic Oban single malt?
You could find yourself on a charge!
No sense giving Monbiot any other hare- brained ideas.
You won’t like the lead that replaces it for anti-knock additive in your gasoline…
Just increase the alkylates and aromatics, no oxygenates needed.
Ethanol = using food to waste money. expensive stupidity
George Monbiot is simply just quoting the science papers falling out of the cow’s big-headed partner’s backside.
The breakdown is the public education system.
The British education system appears much worse than the American system. There are many more fools per capita.
But they take their lead from the PC Woke US
One intelligent grade schooler sent his woke teacher to seek
advice from fellow TikTokers when he told her his pronouns were banana & rock after he pointed out that she hadn’t asked him about his pronouns. Unfortunately, he’ll probably be demoted a grade for more re-education training so he’ll never do that again.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/08/04/clever-students-hilariously-turn-tables-on-woke-school-teacher-during-pronoun-usage-talk-n607137
Indeed, he thinks we must save the planet for the animal kingdom by eliminating so many of those animals. Next, it will be the turn of humans to be eliminated. You first, George!
I would say the biggest threat to the earth is ignorant and/or evil eco-fascists like Monbiot, Al Gore, Klaus Schwab and the Davos Communists, and their ignorant and/or evil minions. I include the ignorant minions that call themselves “journalists” in the dominant dinosaur media.
Morano’s book on the Great Reset- he’s really been on top of it!
https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/08/05/listen-morano-explains-how-the-great-reset-is-being-imposed-on-the-world-through-economic-chaos/
George Monbiot, perhaps you can show everyone how then shall we live without farmers producing livestock & crops from grain, for food for the rest of us? In the book of Romans Paul says “that they worshipped the creatures not the Creator and their knowledge became foolishness in the sight of the Lord…” I think that Mr Monbiot`s statements about farming & livestock & crops are on the back of worshipping “GIA”. He is entitled to his opinion of course, but I am glad that no one believes his theatrics.
Anyone who uses a term like “climate breakdown” must be having a nervous breakdown.
Breakup and breakdown happens every day. Within an hour, I expect enough warming to occur to have a nice comfortable bicycle ride.
If the climate breaks down, will we be left with only the constituent elements, namely: computer models, fearmongering, envy, misanthropy and a hockey stick?
Get your brolly ready!
Who cares what kind of breakdown they are having. Fact is that they are giving children breakdowns – and that does matter.
I suppose that Monbiot never heard of the bison that roamed the Great Plains of North America. I think we pretty much replaced them with cattle.
I love lectures from “environmentalists” that know nothing about the environment!
Recent wildlife studies in our area have demonstrated that quail populations do much better in the presence of a hooved herbivore. The manager of a nearby wildlife district told me I should definitely get some cattle on the tallgrass prairie portions of our farm.
Fixed some fences this spring so my neighbor could run some cow/calf on one corner of our grassland. When I worked at the farm this week, that area was positively singing with “bobwhite” calls just before sundown.
When they covey up this fall, I expect at least one large covey, but there may be two – on land that has had zero quail for the last five years!
The historical quail population clearly developed in a prairie ecology with bison as the primary grazers. Putting cattle on the land very nearly replicates the original ecology.
Monbiot is a dangerous fool.
The European Aurochs became extinct in the 17th century.
Moonbat won’t be happy about this
Extinct, but still around
The aurochs is the ancestor of all cattle and thereby the most important animal in the history of mankind. The keystone species for many European ecosystems was hunted to its extinction in 1627. However, its DNA is still alive and distributed among a number of the ancient original cattle breeds. “The Tauros Programme” aims to bring back the aurochs as a functional wild animal, by back-breeding the closest relatives of the original aurochs.
https://rewildingeurope.com/rewilding-in-action/wildlife-comeback/tauros/
Or visiting here
Chillingham cattle, also known as Chillingham wild cattle, are a breed of cattle that live in a large enclosed park at Chillingham Castle,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillingham_cattle
All such people (Monbiot) need to be rounded up and made to live in their own special nature sanctuary free from all the things they say are bad, like cows and cars and oil and gas and coal and plastics and electricity.
Yes, let’s send them all to Sri Lanka.
He thinks we are dependent on fossil fuels. In fact, we are dependent on the matter and energy that these resources provide.
Only a Grauniad reader takes Moonbat seriously
Cue griff…
Was the personal title Moonbat originated in response to his environmental testimonials?
The last time the British stopped farming in Ireland in 1846, millions died. Population to this day never recovered. Sri Lanka decreed organic farming in 2019, now look at their disaster.
Monbiot should go for a walk in Dublin along the river here :
His predecessor, Queen Victoria’s diarist Kingsley, of course wrote too many Irish, their own fault, while all produce was exported under British Army escort.
Yes it’s hard to figure why there isn’t a “Paddy Lives Matter” movement.
Because it is paid for by Soros et al. BLM was peaceful after all??
Mostly.
The British didn’t stop the Irish from farming – the Irish still farmed. But all the tenant farmers could afford to eat was potatoes. The rest of the food they grew was exported by the English absentee landlords. When the potato blight hit Irish farms, their only food source rotted in the fields.
A similar thing happened in India during the Great Famine of 1876-1878. The colonial government kept exporting wheat from India, even though the people were starving.
When the blight first hit Denver, no-one died of starvation.
What Monbiot does not say is his Davos elites will wine and dine as usual while we eat mush.
It is so an obvious provocation, that I can think only of the Pelosi Prank around the same time. What stunt will they come up with next? Maybe Germany’s Economic Minister, Deputy Chancellor, expecting an energy uprising caused by his policies? Berlin announced a Taiwan Prank for Autumn.
They are sure jumping like cats on a hot tin roof – the yowling!
Read “The Great Hunger” by Cecil Woodham-Smith which tells the history of the Irish Potato Famine, and explains much of modern-day Irish and Irish/American attitudes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Hunger:_Ireland_1845%E2%80%931849#:~:text=The%20Great%20Hunger%20is%20a%201962%20book%20about,it%20as%2C%20%22A%20masterpiece%20of%20the%20historian%27s%20art.%22
There’s a reason George is called Moonbat in lieu of his second name. He’s off the scale crazy. Unfortunately he’s given a platform to clown around on.
Actually he was the original moonbat, which is the spirit animal of warmunism.
He is/was the BBC Radio goto “ecologist” on matters like this. Presenters and Moonbat on first name terms.
Not sure if he still is as he was one of the reasons I gave up listening to all BBC radio output.
Yes, why does the media give publicity to idiots like this?
Because the media are run by comparable idiots?
compatible
Lunacy. Eco facism and Malthusian thought is the greatest danger to mankind. With responsible farming and energy generation, we can manage the impact on our planet.
In agriculture, we already are managing our impact, and getting better at it. This rube Moonbat talks like he just fell off the turnip wagon. He is so far on the lunatic fringe that he doesn’t merit our brain cells to refute him. Just derisive laughter and pity.
Perhaps Moonbat can lead the way? He and his family should refuse any and all farm-produced products. If livestock is bad, so are farm-produced fruit and vegetables. Just think of all that tilling of soil and trucks and tractors driving around.
As is typical, the green loony has not done the math. There is not enough arable land for the whole population to be vegetarian. Cattle and bison generally rely on grassland that is not suitable for farming without extravagant modification. The plowing under of buffalo grass to plant crops contributed greatly to the dust bowl.
The addition of meat to our ancestor’s diet allowed them to grow bigger brains. We need bigger brains to adapt to any changes we are exposed to.
You nailed it Brad DXT.
I am sure that moonbat and the other vegan communist stirrers calling for the elimination of farming are mentally deficient through lack of animal protein.
We have people making claims here that any food can be fermented from fresh air and something else and it will taste the same as the real thing .
If this process was foolproof and cheap why is it not being used now .
A few years ago vegetable growing towers were touted as the way to grow food but the cost of building these towers and the energy to pump water and nutrient plus restricted sunlight was never factored into the calculations .
The methane from farmed animals is a closed cycle and not one additional atom or molecule of carbon is added to the atmosphere .
Also soils under grassland farming build carbon but market gardening soils tend lose carbon due to constant cultivation and soil due to heavy rain on slopes .
Humans expel 12% of all CO2 emissions but this to is a cycle and no additional carbon is added to the atmosphere .
I have grand children attending universities here in NZ but I am worried that they may get brain washed because professors from all our Universities are attacking farming and pushing climate change and sea level rise .
“…mentally deficient through lack of animal protein.”
I saw a headline today in one of the British papers that the recommended intake of protein should be doubled.
George Monbiot: His picture should be alongside every dictionary’s definition of “100% certifiable idiot”.
How do you argue with an idiot? You don’t. So I won’t.
P.S. Far and away the greatest cause of habitat destruction, the greatest cause of wildlife loss, the greatest cause of extinction, the greatest source of fresh water, the greatest cause of “climate breakdown” is a naturally-occurring glacial interval that occurs about every 100,000 years (based on the last million years of so of Earth’s history) and that lasts, on average, about 60,000 years.
We used to put idiots like this in the stocks and throw crap at them, it might be time to bring them back, it would be so cathartic for so many people.
Tell me moonbat, just what do those microbes produce whilst fermenting?
D1ckhead.
Producing Quorn, a popular UK faux meat, uses Palm Oil but it’s “responsibly sourced”. So not evil, aye right.
The manufacturer of Quorn has had adverts banned and their claims that “carbon emissions from livestock are greater than those of all global transport” had to be modified after the
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board pointed out errors but it had got into the wild and is still quoted by the likes of Moonbat.
Isn’t “responsibly sourced palm oil” an oxymoron?
Desecrating the third world is perfectly acceptable to Climate Nutters. Mainstream Media won’t write about it, so it must not exist.
I’ll give up meat when they give up importing veg from around the world. Let them eat root veg all winter. No more importing fruit and veg.
Bison, ox and water buffaloes use to be in great numbers us many more houses. Every family use to keep animals.
It would be unfair & unkind to BeeEss everywhere to refer to the garbage
Moonbat’s spewing as BeeEss. The real BeeEss at least has the decency &
integrity to warn you of what it contains.
Unfortunately, the same thing can be said for garbage, sewage, bilge, ….
Bull Sh1t recycles nutrients to the soil and provides sustenance to dung beetles and other insects. Moonbat’s blatherings are worthless.
Master Monbiot needs to be sectioned, or at least treated as mentally deranged.
Sectioned, by surgeons.
Does Moonbat eat bugs? If not, the hypocrite should keep his mouth shut.
The Moonbat has long been known as a green of very little brain power. No commonsense either.
Monbiot? Enough said….ignore.
Moni-bot
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This raises the heart of the matter, which is, when we talk about the environment, what do we want? The best environment for humans or eliminating human impact?