UK: Farming & Government Net Zero
12th July 2021
The problem with being rural is that government and a major part of the population aren’t rural and in some cases haven’t got a clue what is going on. To put this in perspective somebody mentioned to me four issues those in authority hold against rural dwellers. They feel that these things are standing in the way of us reaching net zero. We are, ‘car dependent, have low density housing and are hooked on oil burning, and then there is intensive agriculture.’ To be fair it isn’t merely government, the entire political class and a lot of quangos and pressure groups are trapped in the same mindset.
We have the same problem in America. The Crust on the Left Coasts consider Flyover Country (when they think about us at all) as an impediment to whatever Grand Scheme they’ve just come up with rather than a constituency that they’re there to serve.