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Brit who moved to Denmark in 2019. I seem not to be too bad at photography. Also a fan of real ale.

Jeg taler også dansk men jeg ved ikke endnu, om jeg kommer til at toote på dansk på denne konto.

I do software stuff to pay the rent.

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" has become the first country in the world to introduce a tax on .

Under the new tax framework, landowners will pay based on their emissions from livestock, fertiliser, forestry and the disturbance of carbon-rich agricultural soils.

One of the main sources of CO2 emissions in the Danish agricultural sector is the drainage and cultivation of former wetlands. Rewilding these is a major strategy for reducing the sector’s emissions."

https://cphpost.dk/2024-06-25/news/climate/denmark-announces-world-first-climate-tax-on-agriculture-earmarks-billions-for-rewilding/

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@CelloMomOnCars I haven’t followed the details super closely, but I got the distinct impression that the farmers really weren’t happy about it at all, so “co-operation” sounds like a stretch. But it could easily be that you have been following it all more closely than I have :)

rvedotrc ,
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@CelloMomOnCars Depends what you mean by “take to the streets”, but they did converge en masse on Christiansborg, the seat of parliament. Though let me just check which issue that was over …

rvedotrc ,
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@CelloMomOnCars Ah yes that was about the PM’s apparently-unlawful decree that, because of Covid, all mink in Denmark were to be destroyed (November 2020).

There was apparently some talk of a repeat tractors-to-Christiansborg demo over the CO2 thing, but I’m not sure it came to anything. Perhaps not helped by comparing the CO2 charge to ethnic cleansing. https://agriwatch.dk/Nyheder/politik/article16839739.ece

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