The editorial at Issues & Insights pretty much answers
its own questions:
. . . Most by now have seen reports that
Dutch officials are closing as many as 3,000 farms in the Netherlands, the
world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value even though
it’s only slightly larger than Maryland, to comply with crackpot European Union
carbon dioxide emissions rules. It’s possible that eventually more than 11,000
farms will be shut down, and 17,600 forced to sharply cut their livestock
numbers.
On our side of the Atlantic, the
malefactors are also busy. Just the News is reporting that the Environmental
Protection Agency is quietly quadrupling
the regulatory cost of carbon emissions in a new war on fossil fuels,
which is, of course, also a war on the food supply.
“If you think about the fact that
they would impose this damage factor, let’s say on farmers, because it applies
to fertilizer,” Louisiana Solicitor General Liz Murill said on the John Solomon
Reports podcast. “Fertilizer emits nitrous oxide. So fertilizer is a big
contributor. If every family farmer now is going to have to pay more to obtain
fertilizer to fertilize crops that feed us, well, what’s that going to do to
the price of food?”
Are these mere coincidences,
entirely unrelated, isolated events?
Could be. But …
- U.S. farmers are convinced that “government meddling threatens their livelihoods and the nation’s food security.”
- “Unrealistic green-energy policies in Europe – and the Biden administration’s hostility to U.S. energy production – are worsening energy shortages,” writes James Meigs in City Journal “With energy prices soaring, food production and distribution will suffer.”
- Global skunks are promoting bugs as an alternative to the foods we enjoy, which is an implicit way of saying “you can eat insects, as unpalatable as they are, or you can go hungry – it’s almost time to choose.”
- The White House has added agricultural land to the federal Conservation Reserve Program, encouraging farmers to leave their land fallow. It’s part, says essayist John Mac Ghlionn, writing in the Washington Times, “of a broader, government-wide push to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Interestingly, the Biden administration’s goal is very similar to the Dutch government’s goal.”
- Canadian boy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proposed rules that will “decimate Canadian farming.”
- “Even as food shortages intensify, governments, including the Biden administration, are cracking down harder on agricultural production,” the Epoch Times reports. “While the attacks on agriculture and related industries look different in different nations, many experts say it’s a coordinated global policy being promoted by the U.N., the World Economic Forum (WEF), the European Union, and other international forces determined to transform civilization.”
- “The Biden administration has engaged in an omni-directional assault on our food production system,” says the Heartland Institute.
As it turns out, all this is
happening at the same time “the number of people affected by hunger has more than doubled in
the past three years”, according to the United Nations, as “almost a million
people are living in famine conditions, with starvation and death a daily
reality.”
. . .
If only the WEF [World Economic
Forum] were some fringe group that had no influence. But it’s not – it’s a
well-funded syndicate with an axis of powerful followers.
Read the full editorial here.
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