Farmers expected to pay for climate change 'guilt bill' of cities: Canavan

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says it's the "farmers and the bush" that have been expected to pay for the "moral unease" of those in the cities about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. The remarks come following the nation's peak farming body, the National Farmers' Federation, adopting a net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 target. Mr Canavan has previously accused them of hypocrisy. "We've declined as a nation, we've adopted so many policies that have taken production out of our country and have made us more reliant on other countries like China I don't think that's what we should be doing," Mr Canavan told Sky News host Alan Jones. "In fact give the NFF their due, they're against those polices. "But it is those policies and those policies alone that have allowed politicians and the NFF to say 'aren't we doing a good job we're meeting our Kyoto targets, we're reducing carbon emissions'. "Carbon emissions are actually going up in the cities, they've gone up for the last few decades. "The only reason as a nation they've gone down is because the cities have sent their guilt bill, their guilt invoice to the bush. "And it's the bush that's expected to pay, the farmers have been expected to pay for the moral unease of those in the cities about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions." Read More Our Apps