Seventy-four
Carbon kids.
Cover Crops’ Climate Hype | The Breakthrough Institute
From Lab to Farm - more in-depth on parts of the analysis
One of the points they make:
USDA should also establish more narrow definitions of when cover cropping is not “climate-smart” and therefore should not qualify for EQIP and CSP IRA funding. For instance, USDA should not use funds earmarked for climate mitigation to support growing non-legume cover crops in places without sufficient water and nutrients where they would be expected to reduce yields or result in greater fertilizer application.
Other recommendations made include reducing methane emissions from rice through irrigation practice changes and manure management to reduce methane. Reducing emissions versus offsetting emissions.
Assistant Professor-Agricultural Carbon Specialist | Virginia Tech
Getting more mainstreamed.
Soil and Water Assessment Tool + (github.com)
It’s on GitHub now. This is a big deal.
Professor Silvia Secchi and Iowa’s Industrial Agriculture — The Checkout
In the podcast, she proposed a policy where [big, wealthy, upper-midwestern, row crop] farmers would only qualify for crop insurance and subsidies if they implemented conservation practices on their own. That it doesn’t make sense to pay major nonpoint polluters subsidies AND then also pay them to do conversation through other programs.
EPA takes rare emergency action to ban pesticide DCPA, citing health risk | Agriculture Dive
How is it that chems go to the market BEFORE they’re proven safe?
Why we should give votes to kids | Molly Kingsley | The Critic Magazine
But it seems that democracies are united in their exclusion of those considered “minors” from the franchise. Children are not competent to make good decisions, so the blunt logic goes, and so cannot be given the vote.
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At its core the argument is staggeringly simple: “one vote per citizen”.
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Children are as much the users and beneficiaries of state support as adult non-taxpayers.
…pandemic policy provides the most recent, stark examples, but really the pandemic merely exacerbated a long-standing trend in which children, under-represented in Western gerontocracies, have been unable to advocate for or defend their immediate, near or long-term interests. Instead, political decision-makers have readily subordinated children’s interests to those of (voting) adults. Think low supply of housing for new families, chronic under-investment in children’s services and maternity services, paltry increases in education budgets as compared to health services, lack of child-friendly infrastructure.
I feel like there is a metaphor in here somewhere
