EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming

Re:EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming by buboard on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:56AM (#23270332)

> “The biodiversity strategy is essential for boosting our resilience and preventing the emergence and spread of future diseases such as zoonoses. Because by destroying nature at an unprecedented rate, and now with around 1 million species at risk of extinction within only decades, we literally threaten our own life, our health and our well-being,” he told a press conference.

This doesnt even make logical sense. As a EU resident i wasn't ever informed of an EU Green Deal etc. Either this isn't happening, or it's being vastly exaggerated. (and in any case organic farming is not about natural biodiversity, it's a frankenstein/zombie policy). If anything i 'd think this is the time to get serious about biotechnology

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Re:EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming by urspx on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:04AM (#23271196)

> As a EU resident i wasn't ever informed of an EU Green Deal etc.

Where are you in the EU? In Germany it was in the news a good bit – I believe it was shortly following the start of the von der Leyen commission.

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Re:EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming by onetimemanytime on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:13AM (#23270423)

>>As a EU resident i wasn't ever informed of an EU Green Deal etc. Either this isn't happening, or it's being vastly exaggerated.

I understand your anger for not being informed or asked. But a lot of countries are trying to reforest and clean the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestation#Implementation

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Re:EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming by buboard on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:34AM (#23270574)

AFAIK, nature is pretty very good at reforesting itself if you leave the land alone. But if you expand organic farming, which doesnt scale, you 're making it worse

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Re:EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming by 101404 on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:23AM (#23273086)

> As a EU resident i wasn't ever informed of an EU Green Deal etc

Its the EU. Remember the last elections? When after winning the elections, the original candidate for presidency was removed, and Merkel put one of her buddies into the position? Because f* democracy apparently.

So why would you think, the EU bureaucracy would care to inform the population? We are ere to pay taxes, nothing else.

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Re:EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming by TomMarius on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:09AM (#23270404)

Wait until you find out about the Digital Services act, another legislature that the EU wants to keep nearly secret.

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