Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper were recenty left “stunned” and “genuinely surprised” at the discovery of a novel form of environmentally friendly farming.
The 64-year-old presenter couldn’t help but admire the green approach of a Dutch farmer, despite his distaste for environmentalism.
Writing in his column for The Times, Clarkson began with the admission that humanity’s “endless thirst for food, power and travel” was “probably” responsible for climate change.
Even still, the former Top Gear presenter refused to kowtow to the dictates of the environmental lobby and pay "everything we earn in tax to that madman Ed Miliband, so he can carpet-bomb the countryside with solar panels and wind turbines.”
Clarkson opened by slamming the environmental lobby
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Clarkson argued that environmentalists “want socialism at its most terrible. They tell us not to strive for a better life because a better life will be no such thing.”
To that end, the former Top Gear host declared it was he who was “living his best life,” not green influencers.
To his mind, that life involved eating hot dogs and “using a helicopter” when the fancy took him.
However, the Clarkson’s Farm star found his preconceptions challenged when visiting Dutch farmer Peter van Wingerden, an engineer and “committed environmentalist”.
Despite his preconceptions, Clarkson was wowed by a Dutch green farm
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The Dutchman showed off his new floating dairy farm moored in the Rotterdam docks.
Van Wingerden’s farm is almost totally automated and self-sufficient – robots milk the cows and sweep up their waste. The waste is then used to power the farm and turn the dock’s water drinkable for the cows.
Nearby footballing giants Feyenoord also donates its stadium's grass clippings to help feed the animals while the farmer exports excess waste turned into fertiliser or even building bricks.
Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper were “stunned” by the farm where almost everything is recycled and reused when they came to visit the Dutch project.
Cooper was "stunned" by the new floating dairy farm
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The former Grand Tour presenter was also “genuinely surprised by the elegant simplicity of it all”.
So impressed was Clarkson by van Wingerden's methods that he called for similar projects to be introduced in the UK.
He argued occupying the disused docks of Britain with floating dairy farms would solve numerous transport, electricity and waste concerns faced by the rural economy.
Best of all, there would be a green supply of “actual milk” and not “godforsaken nut juice that had to be shipped to your kitchen from California.”
