Denmark proposed a “flatulence tax” plan that allegedly garnered industry-wide support and is anticipated to be adopted by the national legislature, the outlet Euro News reported. [emphasis, links added]
A bold new proposal from the Danish government states that starting in 2030, livestock farmers in Denmark will be charged for the greenhouse gases that their pigs, sheep, and cows produce.
According to Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus, the flatulence tax program intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Northern European nations by 70% by 2030.
“We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,” Bruus said, adding that Denmark “will be the first country in the world to introduce a real CO2 tax on agriculture.”
Late on Monday, representatives of the industry, unions, and farmers reached a deal with the center-right government.
“Danish livestock farmers will be taxed 300 kroner ($43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030. The tax will increase to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035.
However, because of an income tax deduction of 60%, the actual cost per ton will start at 120 kroner ($17.3) and increase to 300 kroner by 2035,” according to Euro News. …
The move comes after months of protests by farmers across Europe against climate change mitigation measures and regulations that they say are driving them to bankruptcy.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) claims that methane traps roughly 87 times more heat over a 20-year timeline than carbon dioxide, even though carbon dioxide usually receives more negative attention regarding climate change marketing.
The U.N. Environment Program also claims that 32% of methane emissions caused by humans are related to livestock.
A similar bill was enacted in New Zealand and is set to go into effect in 2025.
However, on Wednesday, the law was struck down from the statute book due to strong opposition from farmers and the shift in power in 2023 from a center-left to a center-right ruling alliance.
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I will again remind everyone that one of the three motivations for starting the Global Warming Movement was an excuse to create new taxes and increase existing ones.
Thereby leaving the hoi poloi poorer, more dependent on government and therefore compliant.
Soon comes the Prayers to the Earth Gods and the Human Sacrifices like those Bloodthirsty Aztecs did
History will judge our civilisation as insane.
The only way this tax will reduce methane would be by reducing the number of cows and pigs, simply making it too expensive to have livestock.
This is ignoring that methane is 100,000 times lower than CO2 and, despite it supposed being 20 times the greenhouse gas, it is minuscule in effect.
This is also ignoring the fact that CO2 and methane have a half-life of about five years, meaning it turns over relatively quickly. The false contention that the half-life is 500 to 1000 years is sheer propaganda.
So it appears that the Danes prefer to lay a stupid tax on their Farmers Over a total false idea based upon Junk Science and Politics
Watch out, there will soon be minders equipped with meters to monitor peoples burps etc. to rationalise a new wind tax levels on the flatulent.
We can likely expect such “good” sense from Ed Miliband in his Quixotic climate campaigns.