The Nationals should support carbon farming, not coal

National Party MP George Christensen has invited other Nationals to join the recently formed pro-coal “Monash Forum”. But is coal in the best interests of their rural constituents, particularly farmers?

The carbon farming initiative gives pig farmers the opportunity to earn
carbon credits for reducing methane emissions from manure. The
proposed change to this government policy may stall, or even end, this market. 

Farmers stand to lose from any weakening of the government’s climate change policies. That is why farmers and their political representatives should be concerned about a current review of the government’s greenhouse gas reduction policy.

What is at stake here is the strange-sounding idea of carbon farming. To explain this idea takes several steps, so bear with me.

Read the piece from The Conversation  by the Emeritus Professor of Sociology from the Australian National University, Andrew Hopkins - “The Nationals should support carbon farming, not coal."