{"id":615849,"date":"2026-09-06T02:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615849\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:06:29","slug":"farmers-blamed-for-carbon-footprints-while-people-fly-around-the-world-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615849\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers blamed for carbon footprints while people fly around the world \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 A correspondent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/09\/01\/does-aer-lingus-think-frankfurt-is-a-summer-only-destination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/09\/01\/does-aer-lingus-think-frankfurt-is-a-summer-only-destination\/\">Letters, September 1st<\/a>) tells us that he has just had his 54th flight in the first eight months of the year and that he knows his \u201ccarbon footprint is appalling\u201d. I am in my 70s, and I have had one flight to India and five or six to the UK in my lifetime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Before I retired, I was a small-time food producer, and I am now finding it hard to understand why it is the food producers (farmers) of this country who are being blamed for their carbon footprints, for damaging the atmosphere, and are now being paid to reduce food production in a world that is starving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Surely the solution is for people to stop, or at least reduce, flying around the world as they are doing? \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">RICHARD ALLEN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cummeen,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sligo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 A correspondent (Letters, September 1st) tells us that he has just had his 54th flight in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,13355,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-615849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-food-production","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}