Dutch farmers don't dig Green
Don't tell Big Media, but the revolt of Dutch farmers is the latest example of the economic chaos and pain that follows the imposition of stupid laws designed to save the planet.
This timely March 2022 article from Foreign Policy magazine is an incredibly informative account of how the rice and tea farmers of Sri Lanka were screwed over by their government's insane efforts to force them to go all-organic and prohibit the use of synthetic fertilizers.
The policy was a total failure, and it was called off this past winter. As Foreign Policy’s authors explain, it did a horrible amount of damage to a country that was climbing into the middle class:
Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised in his 2019 election campaign to transition the country’s farmers to organic agriculture over a period of 10 years. Last April, Rajapaksa’s government made good on that promise, imposing a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic.
The result was brutal and swift. Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.
I'm sure you saw the saturation coverage of the man-made -- government-made -- politician-made -- environmental and economic disaster on CNN and the NYT.
Ha.
The revolt of farmers in the Netherlands is their reaction to similarly harmful green policies/laws that the Europen Union wants to impose on one of the world's most productive agricultural countries.
Like their soulmates running Sri Lanka, the evil greens in charge of the World Economic Forum who dreamed up this idea want to save the planet by having the EU force its member nations to cut nitrogen and carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
Dutch farmers know they will be seriously affected by this idea, and they’re understandably pissed en mass.
A third of them might be put out of business and their huge protests -- which are bringing the Dutch economy to a halt -- have so far been barely covered by our useless Big Media.
Finally, to show how deeply mad this green revolution by government elites has become in Europe, the Dutch government now includes a Minister of Nitrogen.
Orwell's estate is suing....