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How the ‘green’ EU starves the world
https://www.spectator.com.au ^ | 5 July 2022 | Flat White

Posted on 07/05/2022 7:25:52 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

There’s a food crisis brewing, but you wouldn’t know it with the way the European bureaucracy is behaving.

Dutch farmers – who sit as the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world and largest meat exporter in Europe – have brought the Netherlands to a standstill, protesting against Climate Change regulations.

The newly elected government has set up a 55-60 per cent emissions goal by 2030, 70 per cent by 2035, and 80 per cent at 2040. To meet these arbitrary climate targets, they have created a self-inflicted disaster that will see the government drag its agricultural sector up the temple stairs, tear it to bits, and let whatever bloody stumps are left to tumble down the steps for the pleasure of the United Nations climate gods.

Farms which have been feeding the world for hundreds of years are going to be unceremoniously shut and their owners ruined because a couple of bureaucrats decided they didn’t like the nitrogen and ammonia emissions produced by growing food. Their assumption is based on the idea that every country has to present equal emissions to prove they are ‘saving the planet’. It only takes a few moments to realise that the underlying premise is false. A net food producer must have higher nitrogen and ammonia outputs than a nation that doesn’t grow anything. While the Netherlands makes more nitrogen, it’ll create significantly less of something else.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3; energy; europe; food; supply; war; world

1 posted on 07/05/2022 7:25:52 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

If they hate mammal methane so much kill all those waterbuffalo in Africa.


2 posted on 07/05/2022 7:48:37 PM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle

Do cattle or obese humans emit more methane? Asking for myself.


3 posted on 07/05/2022 8:09:59 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Dutch... the world’s second largest agricultural exporter?


4 posted on 07/05/2022 8:12:49 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Not to nitpick, but, other sources show the Netherlands as #6, not #2. That is because the Dutch export large amounts of high value live plants (including bulbs) and flowers, which are “Ag” products, but not (mostly) food.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0712/top-agricultural-producing-countries.aspx (scroll down article).

In terms of food exports, the Netherlands at #6 is still impressive for such a small country.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html

And... the Dutch gov’t has still gone nuts. (pun not intended.)


5 posted on 07/05/2022 8:23:10 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Zuriel

See post 5.


6 posted on 07/05/2022 8:24:07 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Zuriel

Amazing to me, too.

Nederlanders are industrious, agriculture-wise.

Here’s one way of counting ag exports:

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0712/top-agricultural-producing-countries.aspx


7 posted on 07/05/2022 8:24:14 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Zuriel
Learn something new everyday. So the Netherlands would be about 7th or 8th (still surprising) but they have a very large amount of agricultural re-exportation. They buy from one country under a trade agreement, then re-export the commodity unaltered. Apparently it is used to circumvent tariffs in some cases.

Also surprising, or not, the Ukraine ( bread basket of the world) is not in the top ten. Hmmm…propaganda anyone?

8 posted on 07/05/2022 8:31:34 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Nitrogen is the most abundant element in Earth’s atmosphere: approximately 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen!


9 posted on 07/05/2022 11:36:44 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: RomanSoldier19

4l8er


10 posted on 07/05/2022 11:40:40 PM PDT by Chgogal (If Democrats are not aborting babies they are starving them. )
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To: struggle

This is coming here to the USA.

‘Complete Collapse’: Here’s How ESG Destroyed One Nation’s Economy
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/06/complete-collapse-esg-destroyed-nations-economy/


11 posted on 07/06/2022 6:52:58 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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