While I am, of course, generally hugely sceptical that any of the agreements will come even somewhere close to being met, am I alone in being just a teeny bit more hopeful than in the past, because they seem to be doing more than just making agreements and pledging money?
There seems to be more thought around the interconnectedness of our behaviour, and other ways beyond just throwing government money at the problem - like getting financial institutions to stop investing in projects involving deforestation, and major countries also making commitments on trading products that contribute to deforestation.
It does seem like not much more than baby steps at a time when we need giant leaps but it does seem that the thinking is at least going in the right direction.
Ah, I thought I must have just missed something when I heard that reported on the radio yesterday but perhaps not. It seems that this initiative is being led by Joe Biden so I suspect the hugely powerful US farming lobby would be the reason for the lack of focus on cows.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:46 pmThe weird thing is that this methane thing focuses on inspecting pipelines rather than cows. Agriculture is an incredibly powerful lobby, no doubt in part because of the strong cultural power of both food and landscapes.
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In fact, that's another huge worry around all this - the US is massively important if any of these initiatives are going to come even close to success and we have Donald Trump waiting in the wings to come and chuck all the agreements out of the door in less than 4 years' time. If any part of Biden's commitments upset US voters who wouldn't already have been voting for Trump, which is highly likely, then I fear that Trump will ride in on a huge wave of MAGA...A and we're all f.cked.