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#nitrogen

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CelloMom On Cars

#Agriculture is main cause of seasonal carbon ups and downs, study finds

"The study found that agricultural #nitrogen is responsible for 45% of the fluctuation increase in the annual carbon cycle. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and warmer temperatures contribute 40% and 18%, respectively."

phys.org/news/2025-03-agricult

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"The research found that agricultural NITROGEN FERTILIZER is the biggest contributor."

Phys.org · Agriculture is main cause of seasonal carbon ups and downs, study findsBy Jayme DeLoss
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JdeB

662 #ClimateLegal #Greenpeace #Nitrogen [3//3]
Sorry, no more 'toots' today., besides this series. 'Dancing in the streets' [livingroom] has worn me out. And I don't want to rush things.

Politics, inaction and consequnces.
Of course [??] the government will appeal. But the verdict is strong. The SHELL verdict was lost because it was argues that the accused party was a private company which, by it self, could not be held totally accountable for the #ClimateEmergency. In this Greenpeace case the [new] government [and only they] can be held accountable for the clear policy change made. And the government before this one is also being held accountable for doing too little or nothing.
In fact, that policy change is about the only thing they accomplished in nearly a year of being 'at the helm'.
The new gov. is a coalition [traditional for Dutch politics] between 4 parties: the VVD a party consisting of and for entrepeneurs; the NSC a completely new party campaigning on government transparancy and constitutional accountability; the BBB a party originated from the near violent farmers protests, claiming that the ClimateEmergency is not serious and, last but not least, the PVV a party that won the elections by a unprecedented landslide on muslimofobia and migrants.
You have to be Dutch to understand how these parties could come together to rule the country. It's my personal opinion that they can't and won't. The PVV that wants but can't blame this on migrants; the VVD who doesn't want to spend money unless it's on their own, the BBB that only has a political stand point in not-giving-in-an-inch to nature; and the NSC that wants to stand firm on the legal rightiousness.

In summery: for 4 terms and 10 years we had 'PM Rutte' [now the head of NATO] making a carreer of pushing things forward without actualy doing anything for the Climate. And when he was legally forced to make policy encountered huge farmers opposition. Some kabinet members held firm and when it got to hot Rutte pulled the plug on hiis own government. Making sure it was about migrants, of course.
After COVID the Climate was NOT the main issue. It was made to be the migrants means of existence. It was the general dissatisfaction on government that cuased the political landslide we have had to endure. Riding on the coatstails of Trump and populism in general.

Conclusion:
This verdict is a huge win for nature, the #ClimateEmergency and Greenpeace.
It is, a few hours later, unclear what will happen. All parties in government have all pleaded before [and committed themselves] to ophold the rule of law.
But the conflict within is so vaste that already speculations have been made that this gocernment is going to fall, on the topic of Nitrogen and ClimateInaction.
It was clear to me that whatever this coalition was going to fail on several topics: housing and climate. Yelling [screaming] at the sidelines is a lot easier than governing, being confronted by the scope of the problems.
Even in a year of government the haven't been able to dent their self invented problem of migrants. Lots of bold, firm and polarising statements but real ruling... NO

#StopDutchFascism
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
#CapitalismIsFailingYou

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JdeB

662 #ClimateLegal #Greenpeace #Nitrogen [2/3]
Sorry, no more 'toots' today, besides this series. 'Dancing in the streets' [livingroom] has worn me out. And I don't want to rush things.

Why is Nitrogen so bad ? And what has it to do with the #ClimateEmergency ?
Pollution is always bad. Economics above health. And that's the case here; the #AgroIndustry is put above the health of #Nature and humans.
Farmers, for the most part, are not a pop-and-mom enterprise anymore. For centuries farmers have been pushed to produce to an even greater scale by the banking industry and the fertiliser and processing industry. And I shouldn't forget the supermarket [groceries] that always had a strangle hold on farmers to increasingly produce for lower costs, meaning more cattle.
On the face of it Nitrogen is a fertiliser. But unbrideled and unlimited nitrogen is detremental for the nature reserves. It benefits one species at the cost of other more rare species. More nettles and less orchids [we do have those]. After years nature is being atrophied.
The climate comes in as a 'byproduct'. Methane is a gas more potent in destroying the atmosphere than CO2. Some estimation calculate that the burps of all those cows equals all the emissions of Dutch cars.

#StopDutchFascism
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
#CapitalismIsFailingYou

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JdeB

662 #ClimateLegal #Greenpeace #Nitrogen [1/3]
Sorry, no more 'toots' today, besides this series. 'Dancing in the streets' [livingroom] has worn me out. And I don't want to rush things.

To my non-Dutch readers I have to explain things.
Since 2018 Nitrogen has been a nightmare problem for the Dutch gov. In a legal verdict on the quality of nature [thanks to Johan Vollenbroek] the gov could no longer expand the Nitrgen deposition. It took the country in a lockdown. The former gov had to take some halfhearted measures but never succeeded for an inch. Huge consequences: houses [or any construction] couldn't be build and more.
A lot happened since, COVID came and the gov. fell shortly thereafter. Elections. And a new gov. came: combining a far right party with a very new farmers party. And they weren't going to do shit.
Cause it's all about shit.
Nitrogen is made by shit, cattle shit. And boy do we have cattle. The Netherlands cow-density is the largest in the world. [number of cows per square km] Most of the produce is exported. So most of the problem is caused by cattle farmers. OK flying and road traffic are also biggies.
The solution would be to have less cows.

#StopDutchFascism
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
#CapitalismIsFailingYou

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Canadian Association For Food Studies

Optimizing stewardship of the land?
Digital agriculture and the ideology of optimization in Canadian policy and media discourse

Sarah Marquis

#DigitalAg #DigitalAgriculture #Nitrogen #NitrogenFertilizer #Fertilizer #Optimization #SustainableAg #Agriculture #CanAg

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.caOptimizing stewardship of the land? : Digital agriculture and the ideology of optimization in Canadian policy and media discourse | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentationScholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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