Remember, this is all about science, not controlling people
Labeled Climate Culprits, European Farmers Rebel Over New Standards
To meet climate goals, some European countries are asking farmers to reduce livestock, relocate or shut down — and an angry backlash has begun reshaping the political landscape before national elections in the fall.
So, where’s the food going to come from? Remember, when you reduce the supply while increasing the number of consumers, costs will skyrocket.
This summer, scores of farmers descended on the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, to protest against new E.U. rules aimed at restoring natural areas and cutting emissions that contribute to climate change. Farmers have protested in Belgium, Italy and Spain, too.
The discontent has underscored a widening divide on a continent that is on the one hand committed to acting on climate change but on the other often deeply divided about how to do it and who should pay for it.
Most Warmists want Someone Else to pay for it
Those like Helma Breunissen, who runs a dairy farm in the Netherlands with her husband, say that too much of the burden is falling on them, threatening both their livelihoods and their way of life.
For almost 20 years, Ms. Breunissen has provided the Dutch with a staple product, cow’s milk, and she felt that her work was valued by society, she said. The dairy sector in the Netherlands, which also produces cheeses like Gouda and Edam, is celebrated as a cornerstone of national pride.
But the sector also produces almost half the Netherlands’ emissions of nitrogen, a surplus of which is bad for biodiversity. Ms. Breunissen and thousands of other farmers bridle that they are now labeled peak emitters.
Obviously, the big wigs passing these laws and rules aren’t going to go after their fellow big wigs. Remember, France did away with short haul flights for the peasants while allowing private jets to fly as much as they want.
In the Netherlands, the government has asked thousands of farmers to scale back, move or close. The authorities set aside about 24 billion euros, about $26 billion, to help farmers put in place more sustainable solutions — or to buy them out.
Food? Who needs food?
Although only nine million out of almost 400 million voters in Europe work in agriculture, they are a vocal and influential bloc that attracts the sympathy of many on a continent where a nation’s identity is often tied to the food it produces.
A host of new groups are vying to displace traditional parties. They include the Farmer Citizen Movement, known by its Dutch acronym BBB, which was established four years ago.
Will the citizens of the EU turn against their dictatorial politicians, or, continue to vote against their best interests?
When you reduce the supply you make the product unavailable to those who are financially challenged.
Thus those people are faced with tough choices. They have to sacrifice something like warmth, shelter or food. Giving up any one of those things, especially in winter results in death. And that is the true goal of the people in power. They want to cull the herd. Starvation has ALWAYS been an excellent and easy method of doing that.
why do the urban idiots always feel the need to tell everyone else how to live?
25% of all American farm workers are undocumented migrants
I will believe Teach wants to send them home when he says he will take their place in the fields. Just kine he is always saying the young must prove their commitment to stop climate change by giving up all use of fossil fuels.
Gotta walk the walk Teach
says the number one supporter of EV’s coincidentally the number one hypocrite for not owning an EV. That’s what’s the matter with you leftists you’re all full of shit. You really need to take a good look at yourselves before you start passing judgment on others you’re nothing but mediocrities, all of you.
Mr H’s point appears to be there is enough hypocrisy on either side of any argument to make it fruitless to use it as “evidence”. But it IS an effective line of attack; just another form of ridicule.
Budget critical cons still use government services.
Global warming “warriors” still drive and fly and heat and cool their homes.
Kids still use cell phones and iPads.
China haters still buy cheaper stuff from China.
“25% of American farm workers are undocumented migrants”. The point is that they don’t have to be illegals.
You have to read what is written carefully:
The ‘leaders’ aren’t trying to actually reduce food production, but to meet their “climate goals.” They know that the food will be produced somewhere, but that it’ll be somewhere in which they are attributed to someone else’s “climate goals.” The apparently odd notion that having to transport the food from further away would require more fossil fuels seems to have been missed.