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'Costly’ ESG standards, climate policies will ultimately reduce food and energy supplies: report
Fox Business ^ | 2/7/2024 | Thomas Catenacci

Posted on 02/11/2024 6:29:14 AM PST by Pollard

Texas agriculture commissioner says ESG policies 'will have a devastating impact on US agriculture and world food security'

Climate change policies and environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards will have an outsized negative impact on the U.S. agriculture industry, according to a new report shared with FOX Business.

The report — published Wednesday by the free market think tank Buckeye Institute — is titled "Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm" and outlines how farmers will see their operational costs rise by an estimated 34% as a result of net-zero ESG policies. While the report states its findings were "predictable and unsurprising," it added that U.S. policymakers seem "unwilling to address or even acknowledge them."

"Government climate-control policies ensconced in the Paris Climate Accords, the Inflation Reduction Act, and ESG-guided mandates carry a hefty price tag, especially for U.S. farms and the American consumer," wrote report authors Trevor Lewis and M. Ankith Reddy, who both serve as economic research analysts at The Buckeye Institute.

"Europe has tested many of these policies aggressively for years, and the results have been an unmitigated failure," they continued. "Despite these resounding warnings from European counterparts, U.S. policymakers have recommitted American industry to the same net-zero emissions standards and have imposed the same kinds of costly mandates on farms and businesses that will ultimately reduce food and energy supplies without achieving their intended benefits."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: esg; famine; featurenotabug; food; inflation; marxisttyranny
The report further modeled the impact those heavier cost burdens would have on consumer, showing the average American family of four’s household grocery bill would increase by roughly $1,300 per year.

Overall, the prices of common grocery items, including American cheese, would increase 78%, beef would increase by 70%, rice would tick up 56%, chicken would see a 39% increase and eggs would be 36% more expensive. Foods that require more carbon-intensive processes to produce saw the largest uptick in prices.

1 posted on 02/11/2024 6:29:14 AM PST by Pollard
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To: Pollard

The economy, utilities, transportation, food, crime, war, families, morality.

Traitorous Demonicrats pile crisis on top of crisis (which they continue to generate in all of these categories) in order to ultimately demand that martial law (under their dictatorial control) is required to bring order to the selected (i.e., leftist) population.


2 posted on 02/11/2024 6:35:52 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Pollard

It’ll be just like the old Soviet Union. The average person will see empty shelves, and just scrape by. The commissars, however, will eat well.

And who are the new commissars, you might ask. Here’s a partial list.

Al Gore
Greta Thunberg
John Kerry
Bill Gates

Onward the Green Revolution! (I guess)


3 posted on 02/11/2024 6:37:10 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Pollard

Government climate-control policies = government thinks it’s God


4 posted on 02/11/2024 6:37:30 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Pollard

Governments will Murder millions and the Climate/Weather will stay the same it’s always been


5 posted on 02/11/2024 6:39:49 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Pollard

Starvation is a useful tool for Democrat scum.


6 posted on 02/11/2024 6:44:23 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Pollard

same problems the French peasant were experiencing when some smart-alec said “let them eat cakes” and lost her head.


7 posted on 02/11/2024 6:49:58 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Pollard

Well, when depopulation is the end goal anything is acceptable.


8 posted on 02/11/2024 6:52:42 AM PST by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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To: butlerweave

DELIBERATE, DELIBERATE, DELIBERATE! They are now talking about it in our face, depopulation agenda 21 now 30. When do we take this sh## seriously? when we are dropping in the streets?


9 posted on 02/11/2024 6:55:15 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Pollard

It should not come as a surprise when proponents of ESG and DEI find themselves accident prone.


10 posted on 02/11/2024 6:55:34 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Pollard

The extravagant lifestyles of the elites will not be effected at all by shortages and higher prices. They won’t even notice it and so they don’t care.


11 posted on 02/11/2024 6:56:51 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Carl Vehse

TWO HUNDRED and TEN☠️ 🤮 days since we have been EXTINCT! 😀😃😄😁😆🥹😅😂🤣🥲☺️☺️😊😇🙂🙃😉😌😍🥰😘😗😙😚😋😛😝😜🤪🤨🧐🤓 😎🥸🤩🥳😏 😒😞😔😟😕🙁☹️😣😖😫😩🥺😢😭😤😠😡🤬🤯😳🥵🥶😶‍🌫️😱😨😰😥😓🤗🤔🫣🤭🫡🤫🫠🤥😶🫥😐🫤😑😬🙄😯😦😧😮😲🥱😴🤤😪😮‍💨😵😵‍💫🤐🥴🤢🤧😷🤒🤕🤑🤠😈👿👹👺🤡💩👻💀👽👾🤖🎃😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾🫶🤲👐🙌👏🤝👍👎👊✊🤛🤜🤞✌️🫰🤟🤘👌🤌🤏🫳🫴🥶😶‍🌫️👈👉👆👇☝️✋🤚🖐👋🤙🫲🫱💪🦾🖕✍️🙏🫵🦶🦵🦿💄💋👄🎆🫦🦷👅👂🦻👃👣👁👀🫀🗣👤👥🫂👶👧🧒👦👱‍♀️🧑👨👩‍🦱🧑‍🦱👨‍🦱👩‍🦰🧑‍🦰👨‍🦰👱‍♀️👱👱‍♂️👩‍🦳🧑‍🦳👨‍🦳👩‍🦲🧑‍🦲👨‍🦲👨‍🦲
Five years, TWO HUNDRED and TEN days ago, Gretta quoted a “top climate scientist” on the extinction of humans. Now the “predictions” is for 7.09 years from now. The “scientists” have been moving the dates up 5 years or so at a time for over 50 years. In 1842 the Millerites were fooled twice and gave it up. After being fooled over and over and over, the present day man made climate change cultists still cling to the insanity.


12 posted on 02/11/2024 7:01:11 AM PST by Mogger (Are)
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To: Pollard

All going according to plan as intended. The end goal is to have us literally eating each other to cull the species.


13 posted on 02/11/2024 7:04:25 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ronnie raygun

Maybe a bounty might help.


14 posted on 02/11/2024 7:07:11 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Pollard

Eco-religionists: “There are just too damned many humans! What is to be done?”

Globalists: “We have an idea...”


15 posted on 02/11/2024 7:23:11 AM PST by Clioman
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