Posted on 07/28/2022 5:11:36 PM PDT by Pollard
The Netherlands has descended into an ideological war zone between city-bound bureaucrats trying to polish their climate credentials on the world stage, and local farmers who have been feeding Europe for centuries.
As one farmer said, ‘This is not a democracy anymore: it’s a dictatorship.’
Farmers have set up dozens of blockades on highways by dumping large piles of manure on choke points to cause maximum traffic chaos. Others have taken to setting some of these piles on fire and leaving them to smoulder away, just like citizen anger.
SNIP
There is another very nasty reason for the treatment of farmers that relates to a 2019 decision. 18,000 construction projects in the Netherlands, collectively worth 14 billion euros, were put at risk of being abandoned after a decision related to nitrogen emissions earlier that May.
According to Reuters:
‘The country’s highest court in May ruled that the way Dutch buildings and farmers dealt with nitrogen emissions was in breach with European laws. This has already caused delays in work on new highways, housing blocks, airports, wind farms, and a range of other vital infrastructure in recent months, while many other projects are also at risk.’
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.com.au ...
Go Farmers!
So there you have it. The EU came up with climate goals and now the Netherlands can either stop construction or oust farmers to meet those goals.
Time for NEXIT.
Show the Canadians how to do it. Schwab punk Trudeau is getting ready to try it in Canada.
Wasn’t much of the Netherlands built on drained wetlands? Not very environmentally considerate.
“The winter of our discount tent.” — Red Green, the Red Green Show
Animals are sensible critters who will leave a sinking land.
Humans, OTOH....
What did they expect with a "European Union". They have no vote, no voice only to submit!
LOL
“So, England, France and Germany are starting up a united Europe thing. Want to join?”
“Why?”
“Well, THIS time they are asking nicely rather than just send in an army.”
Ultra informative on the Dutch farmers and nitrogen as the new WEF boogieman of global warming. And just about all Greenies are city dwellers. Suburbs close to cities to. These small minds are jealous of farmers and ranchers
CO2 is old hat! Nitrogen is the new bad boy of global warming.
Get ready for Hongerwinter Part Twee.
I ain’t eating bugs.
None of this “nitrogen as global warming pollutant” garbage will fly in England/UK.... Anyways they wisely left the EU. I say the Dutch leaders are lying about nitrogen limits. How come the other EU nations are not harassing their farmers over nitrogen emissions?
This current divide around the world is the city v. the country. City people have no clue how things work outside city limits.
Good point.
Crap.
They better stop this before itchyboots doesn’t have a country to come home to !
It’s bad enough she banged her ankle up in the desert .
Too bad they don’t have a million AR-15s.
Because without the right to keep and bear arms you have no rights at all.
The Great Woke Reset wants to cancel farming.
Who needs food?
Canada has adopted a reduced fertizer plan that will assure a dramatic drop in food production like that in Sri Lanka. The Netherlands and now Ireland are decimating their agricultural production driving farmers off their farms. The leftist greens are producing conditions for a global famine.
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