In defence of the plough, organic/regenerative, heat
Hello.
After having repeated the regenerative agriculture mantra of 'ploughing is bad' for some time, reality smacked me in the face when we started farming organically. I just wrote a blog post about how the plough really isn't the bad guy it has been made out to be, based on our experience of clumsily finding our feet at Deepdale.
On the subject of farming, I'm going to the Oxford Real Farming Conference in Oxford in January. A big old agroecological get-together.
This piece on the UN's admission that there is no credible path to 1.5C is not an easy read.
The UN is now admitting what others have been saying for some time; that global temperature rises of over 1.5C are much more likely due to inadequate international action to address the climate crisis.
Bill McGuire's book Hothouse Earth details the likely ramifications of us crashing through the 1.5C guard rail this century. They're grim.
It's easy to dismiss news like this as 'doomist' or simply because it is too much to take in. It is easy to feel scared, alarmed, hopeless, powerless. But it's a reminder that every single thing you, we, do - every single change, every purchase, every vote, every behaviour change makes a difference, adds up to maybe making ours and others' experience of climate breakdown less bad.
The UN says that the "rapid transformation of societies" is the only thing that can make a difference now - rapid transformation is coming, whether we're in the driving seat or not.
Finally, our movers are booked, the bill is paid, and I need a lie down now please. No more big relocations after this one for a while if we can help it.
All the best
Nathan