The rapid erosion of the soil is increasingly becoming an ecological fire. According to the latest Greenpeace report, construction continues to reach new record levels.
About 95 percent of the average developed area consists of fertile native land. Our latest calculations show that in 200 years it will no longer be possible to farm in Carinthia and Salzburg if the destruction continues at this rate,” fears Greenpeace expert Melanie Ebner.
The bare numbers: the yield of the land lost to agriculture each year could feed almost 20,000 Austrians for an entire year. This in turn corresponds to all residents of the town of Kufstein, the “Pearl of Tyrol”.
The environmentalists use the municipal database of the Ministry of Agriculture as an “incorruptible basis for calculations”. This means that the negative trend of the past 36 years continues rapidly.
Since then, 330,000 hectares of agricultural land, such as fields, meadows, vineyards, permanent crops, commercial gardens, heaths and pastures, have been closed. This would have meant that more than 1.5 million people could have been fed with food from the fields.
“If we allow this to continue, we will become even more dependent on foreign countries for supplies. There is therefore a need for a rapid implementation of the government program to limit daily land consumption to 2.5 hectares,” hail insurance boss Kurt Weinberger warns again, but in vain: “Every local boss is still proud when he sees industrial areas or industrial areas in a field “I can plant gray apartment buildings.”
Source: Krone
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