Answer to submitter. A combination terminal is from an environmental point of view better than arable land
Maria Hörnell wonders in an answer on My submitter What reality I live in, where I have thought that « the right crop should be grown » and if we should be forced to plow up the city parks.
Agriculture is not a natural activity in the landscape, but represents a serious intervention in nature to produce food so that we humans can eat us. Agriculture focused on animal husbandry is classified in the Swedish Environmental Code as environmentally hazardous activities.
Arable land is of no value whatsoever for nature or biodiversity. There are plowed clay soil where sensible people don’t even want to walk. IN A news feature from SVT Sörmland Can we see the arable land that the municipality wants to build a so -called combination terminal on. It lacks all charm and all biological value. It is clay soil on which grass grows.
When the ground is fertilized Of the farmer, the nutrition that eventually ends up in surrounding watercourses and the Baltic Sea are leaking, which, as a result of the over -fertilized and the death, spread. A combination terminal would thus be preferable from the sad field that with distress and bare is only due as a parking space or feed cultivation from an environmental point of view.
Maria Hörnell wonders where « the right crop should be grown ». Food production in Sweden and large parts, not to say the whole, the world represents an ineffective land use. In total, 80 percent of land use for food production goes to the animal industry, but meat, milk and other animal products account for only 17 percent of people’s calorie intake and only deliver 33 percent of our protein intake.
My confidence in the organization Swedish meat does not extend beyond the nose is enough. But even this organization for passionate meatmen notes The fact that the total arable land in Sweden is approximately 2,500 square meters per person. To produce food for a vegan, there are calculations that only around 800 square meters of arable land are required.
So we would With other eating habits, we manage to be much less agricultural land. Changed eating habits would allow us to allow two -thirds of the sterile and biologically uninteresting plowed arable land that Maria Hörnell wants to protect with legislation to grow again with trees and forests where wildlife (read: biodiversity) could live.
Forest binds an enormous amount of carbon dioxide and planting forests is associated with very low costs. According to Associate Professor Stefan Wirsenius at Chalmers University of Technology, a hectare of forest on average 400 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Hörnell wonders in what reality I live. The other day Published DN an article About how the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere is shining. I wake up at night at 03 and rest my dog while I have bath slippers on my feet.
I go a lap Around Sankt Laurenti church in Söderköping. It was erected as early as the 13th century. I am sure that if I made the same walk at the same time of year and day for one of the almost eight centuries that have passed since the church was erected, I had frozen my feet.
But now, partly as a result of the incomprehensible wasteful agriculture that characterizes human food production, bath slippers are a reasonable alternative. What reality does Maria Hörnell live in?
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