And, now a tax on fertilizer?

Greenpeace would like to tax the way you live...period.

Greenpeace is calling for a tax on fertilizer as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions it says are caused by agriculture.

The environmental group has issued a report entitled Cool Farming, which claims fertilizer overuse is greatest cause of agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions, equal to some 2.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

Greenpeace agricultural campaigner Josh Brandon says the "impact of industrial farming on climate change has reached a critical threshold."

He says "we can only go on so long sucking the life out the soil and releasing waste into the air, oceans and rivers before we permanently degrade the capacity of these ecosystems to sustain us."

Brandon adds that if Prime Minister Stephen Harper is sincere in combating climate change, an essential first step is a tax on fertilizers.

This must be followed, says Brandon, by tougher regulations on pesticides and money to promote local and organic agriculture in Canada.

If we all go organic - we'll starve. We need intensive agriculture.