Why are Farmers Protesting? How Does This Affect You? 

Thank you - we really need to wake up to what is going on at the moment!

@@howardsportugal The whole world is waking to the Shaking. Keep keeping on.

It is beautiful...come back one day!

Thank you! Cheers for coming along on the journey!

Yes indeed...farmers are absolutely to be supported!

Thank you & thanks for watching xx

That is really fantastic context - thank you for the clarity also. As with everything, look to who is funding the "research"

Hmmm - might have to put in some time-lapse strimming just for you! Bedankt voor het kijken!

Obrigado eu - A repetir!!

Certainly some good ideas there!

Asian hornets...well, they nested in the bee hives...they didn't survive the winter ;-) Portugal is glorious, and parts of the country remain underpopulated...You should definitely come and take a look!

Hope so!

Cheers for coming along on the journey! I must say that I haven't watched TV for years now & don't miss it one bit. I don't know how people find the time to watch it! Point taken on the strimming & we have a building project coming up... Cheers!

Certainly, without CO2 there would be no plants. Interesting to note that commercial greenhouses often have CO2 machines to increase the concentration / promote faster growth.

It is also about Quantitive Easing - the governments are "printing" money to fund their vanity projects. Your house, for example, "increases" in value year on year...except that it doesn't. It is a fixed asset. What is really happening is the value of the money in your pocket is decreasing.

@@howardsportugal I’ll visit you to talk about all of that. Farmers are stinking welthy! Their welth is locked up in their farm like with many people in their house! We in the Netherlands thrown our markets out the door, together with all small farmers. Now we relay on workers from Central Europe or even more far! There’s many problems like the rain last autumn. I’m looking for a piece of land to plant some trees. Area Castelo novo

Yes, on paper, many farmers are indeed very wealthy. As you rightly say, however, their wealth is more often than not tied up in their properties, their machines & their animals. They are often asset-rich but cash-poor

@@howardsportugal where I live there are circumstances that they don’t have to pay taxes on inheritance of the farm! Landprices are high becorse of this. They add a few expensive acres to a group of family owned acres and the Avery’s still cheap! The money is tied up, so it’s safe for inflation! There’s many sides. I would absolutely be a farmer if i could

Thank you so much - cheers for watching!

I think we have around a 5 to 10 % survival rate for the trees...hard to tell as they are over such a huge area! The issue was drought last year, so any that are still there should outlive me!

@@howardsportugal Yes, it was too dry a summer for saplings. What a shame. Well at least for the ~100 survivors the worst (the first year) is over. I wish them luck, an a good layer of mulch :)

Hi Ray, to get residency, you apply via the SEF, but you have to meet one of various criteria. Because Eve is French & we are married, I qualified for that reason. I can't give a definitive answer, but www.sef.pt is the place to start (click top right to select language). Best to you, Steve

Just to be clear - on reflection of what you said about carbon in the atmosphere - are you a climate change denier ? @@howardsportugal

I am not sure what you mean by that term. Climate has always changed since earth was formed. The question as to whether man is changing the environment is, I assume, what you are asking. As an individual, I do my best (as I tried to explain) to look after the environment - I do not think that the solution to all perceived problems is for those that use private jets to tax people more.

I think that anyone that is interested in natural history and is around 60 years old will be aware of the huge climate changes over the last half century. It is almost completely agreed amongst eminent scientists globally that mans immense impact(post industrial revolution) on emmitting polution has unquestionably contributed to the worlds warming. I was born and lived in Kent for 50 years and saw for myself how winters have got so mild and insects and spiders that were never seen as a boy were now becomming common(like the daddy long legged spider). To evade and dismiss mans impact on our environment goes along with all the far right mad Neo Cons in the USA that at their root thinking have an agenda to carry on allowing their factories to use cheap fossile fuels and continue churning out tons of pollution - just to line their evil pockets. America is one of a few Countries that (for some reason) hide their emmigration stats(those that leave their shores). With a bit of deaper research we start to understand why(not good PR as it is very high - runs into multi millions per year - which sort of explains why they need so may of immigrants(same as the UK)). Ironically, given that the U.S. is a far right (some would say Fascists) political system it is surprising that many Americans look to Portugal to settle - one of the few left wing Socialist countries in Europe. Having spent several months in California I can easily why many U.S. citizens want to get the hell out of this crazy scarey place - where one cannot walk the streets of a night time. I think I am right in saying that Portuguese people are very switched on and they are kind and thoughtful(as per their Socialist credentials) and irony upon irony(as above) the worlds Climate change inpact centre is based in Lisbon - your Capital(Climate Change Impacts Adaptation and Modelling - CCIAM) at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. So quite funny that here your are side stepping my question on being a Climate change denier and yet living amongst kind sweet people who care about the 'causes' of Climate change, so much so that the Worlds CCIAM is based in their capital - and you are sort of indifferent to why we are where we are ? @@howardsportugal

@rayglover8647 - thank you for your detailed reply. I am going to talk further about some of the issues that you raise in a future video.

53.35p per day is, I am sad to report, the UK average standing charge...I wish indeed that I was wrong, but there are an awful lot of ways people in the UK are being fleeced