Posted on 03/11/2023 9:32:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The peasants are rising up again. In Belgium, farmers flooded the streets of Brussels last week with over 2,000 tractors to protest their government’s plan to limit nitrogen emissions. For these farmers, almost everything is at stake — not only their livelihoods, but also their way of life. Of course, the rest of us also have a big stake in all of this: fewer productive farms means less food in the world. How much less? We’ll get to that presently.
In a quirky inverted sort of way, what is happening now has been a long time coming. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published a bestselling book, The Population Bomb, that promoted the Malthusian thesis that because food production could not keep up with population growth, people would starve to death. Ehrlich predicted that people would be starving by the millions in the 1970s, but, as it turns out, that didn’t happen because of the Green Revolution, which was the implementation of advanced agricultural innovations into less developed countries.
Spurred on by agriculture scientist Norman Burlaug, who later won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, this program consisted in applying well-understood irrigation principles, mechanizing farm work, and increasing the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. The result was breathtakingly dramatic. It has been estimated that the Green Revolution saved a billion people from starvation. Also instrumental in the Green Revolution was the development of hybrid rice varieties by Chinese agronomist Luan Yongping. All of these innovations taken together resulted in the fact that, in the years prior to the COVID pandemic, the world as a whole was better fed than ever before in all of human history.
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The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food.
They should be protesting. When Europe is starving, they’ll still never learn!
Bkmk
Europeans will learn to love their daily ration of bugs.
Protest, protest, protest. Yeah. Why not just write a sternly worded letter like the UN does for every atrocity?
You control food access to blue cities.
Grow a pair or go home and borrow a dress from your wife.
Protesting doesn’t work anymore. It is us against them and right now they are winning.
Zimbabwing the EU is the quickest way to bring it down.
The Leftists and WEF types will produce another Holodomor if we let them.
It’s already too late to stop it.
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