Sky News Australia

Iowa farmers sceptical about climate change

Published: Apr 25, 2021 Crawled: Feb 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM Length: 220 words
Article Length
220 words
Original Article
Read Full Article →

Article Content

The Biden administration this week led an international forum to encourage more ambitious climate reduction targets but the president's fighting his own battle on the home front to meet his goal of a 50 per cent reduction by 2030. Two-thirds of Iowa farmers are sceptical about man-made climate change, like Charlie Peters. For us to say, you know, as a human being I can control this or I understand whats going on its I think beyond most all of us, the Iowa cattle farmer told Sky News. I keep hearing gloom, doom, you know, were not going to survive this, everythings going to be bad. Mr Peters remains unsure about some of the Biden administrations boldest plans to tackle climate change. The Biden administration wants to tie $US30 billion in farm aid to practices that are sustainable, but Iowa farmers are concerned the money could be hijacked by middlemen. I'll just give an example, we've talked a lot about my involvement in our local school, Mr Peters said. Now they have a program that is funding for non-public schools, that they can receive some COVID funding, but its administered by a third party. So whatever funding that school receives, lets say for example its $200,000, the third party that oversees that receives 30 per cent. Read More Our Apps

Article Details

Article ID
6872
Article Name
1d249d631de8e61eb7882bd1456d53b6
Date Published
Apr 25, 2021
Date Crawled
Feb 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Newspaper Website
skynews.com.au