The President of the Federal Environment Agency, Dirk Messner, thinks a CO2 tax for cows is a good idea. He last had that in the podcast “Jung
According to Messner, agriculture could definitely be made to pay for its CO2 emissions. But farmers see this “fart tax” for cows as problematic. For example, the chairman of the “Family Businesses Land and Forestry” (FABLF), Max von Elverfeldt, accuses the head of the Federal Environment Agency of using ideological and unscientific arguments.
He explained to “Bild” that livestock farming is an important branch of the economy in Germany: “If the Federal Environment Agency demonizes cows as climate pests, it doesn’t deserve its name. Farmers in Germany have been feeding us for centuries.”
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“The fight for the climate must not be fought on the backs of our cows and our dairy farmers. The cow is a German cultural asset. What the President of the Federal Environment Agency is demanding here is pure ideology and has nothing to do with science and climate protection,” says von Elverfeldt.
Von Elverfeldt is also critical of the plan of the European Green Deal for stricter protection of ten percent of arable and forest areas in Europe. According to him, 3.5 million hectares would fall out of use as a result. That would have devastating consequences, such as endangering 300,000 jobs in the wood industry: “A ban on use would jeopardize the independent supply of food and wood.”
Also, reaching the 1.5 degree target by 2050 could become so difficult if the CO2 storage capacity of forests is threatened. According to von Elverfeldt, this is also an ideology. The farm boss warns: “Anyone who wants to impose a climate tax on the farting and belching of cows is taxing life itself. And where is this climate madness supposed to end?”
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