And because smoke is fine dust, a very large area is hopelessly polluted. I wonder if the real environmental footprint has ever been looked at realistically.
I think it is just a matter of a few left-wing idealists who have started investing and issuing subsidies and that the commercial sector has been happy to take over.
This shows that chasing a wet dream is stupid. And ideology is also nothing more than an idea. You have to keep both feet on the ground.
It has been scientifically proven and tested that worldwide organic farming will completely solve the CO2 problem in a year.
The agricultural lands are now nothing more than dirt with artificial fertilizers and pesticides. There is no life left in the soil other than the planted crop.
Organic farming gives a farmer 4x more money and the soil becomes earth again, which absorbs gigantic amounts of CO2.
It is the lobbyists of Monsanto and large investment companies who are preventing this. That transition would not only solve the co2 problem but also the food problem in the world and the food would be many times more nutritious and less polluted. But not only that, the air would be much cleaner, the biodiversity would increase by leaps and bounds, we would have a much stronger immune system.
It is such a big positive change for the living climate of the earth that fossil fuels could just continue to exist. We would also spend those billions that are now spent on nonsensical environmental policy to solve poverty, which would solve gigantic problems.
If we could breathe clean air again and our food would be nutritious again, free of pesticides.....