Now the climate crisis is self-evident, a common argument by those who STILL defend polluters is that “NZ is too small to make a difference, and so shouldn’t have to stop intensive dairy farming or driving Ford rangers to school in Auckland”
Rod Carr destroys it in this mic-drop moment.
Exactly what value do NZ farmers bring to the world?
If you are talking Dairy, most of their production is exported and consumed as luxury food - if it disappeared tomorrow, the world would not suffer!? (~3 percent of the world’s milk solids) Dairy is one of the most inefficient ways to produce “food”. We could do much better producing plant based food for export.
Considering the damage to our waterways, the environment in general, and Climate Change - there is NO value in that.
Per Capita is the correct measure to use in my, and many others’ opinion - there is no other fairer way to attribute the effects.
Bringing in another 5 million people into the country would see our Carbon Emissions rise… Removing a good portion of 5 million dairy cows would see a rapid and significant reduction!