Letters to the Editor: Agriculture shouldn’t get a free pass

'What will future generations make of the fact that, even as we knew we were facing catastrophic climate change, we increased our dairy herd — the biggest polluter in our most-polluting sector — by almost half in 10 years?'

The greatest challenge we face today is climate change. It represents an existential threat to life on Earth as we know it. And it is a problem of our own making.

As the only species which can prevent catastrophic climate change, we continue to stubbornly refuse to do what is necessary to prevent it. A microcosm of this is our attitude to agricultural emissions.