A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that imposing radical decarbonization targets on the agricultural sector is a serious threat to food security and could have highly damaging effects.
According to author Martin Livermore, modern farming unavoidably emits greenhouse gases, which are intrinsic to the production of fertilizer and the raising of livestock. [emphasis, links added]
That being the case, governments appear to have decided that we should all be pushed towards a vegan diet and that productive, intensive arable farming should be discouraged.
This would have an enormous negative impact on farmers, the rural economy, and the landscapes we value.
Martin Livermore says:
“Moves to limit fertilizer use have already brought farmers onto the streets in the Netherlands [pictured], and will surely do so elsewhere. Farming is vital for the countryside and for our food security. We cannot just wish it away.”
Dr. Benny Peiser, GWPF director, adds:
“Martin Livermore’s paper shows the risk of putting our livestock farmers out of business in order to shave a small fraction off our carbon dioxide emissions. It’s an extraordinary threat to Britain’s food and national security.”
Martin Livermore: UK Food Strategy and Net Zero (pdf)
Famine brought about by a total lie of Global Warming/Climate Change Net Zero is a totally stupid idea and the minds of idiots
Encouraging to see that Dutch voters sided with their farmers in the latest election there. Kudo’s to the farmers tenacity in making their point.
Western governments are sticking their noses way up farmers business lately. They want control of our land.
There is no one more qualified to manage farmland than the farmers themselves. I love my farm. I would do nothing that degrades or devalues it. It’s called stewardship, not compliance.
The book “Population Bomb” if often criticized on this web site. Yet, based on the agricultural practices of the time, its prediction of world wide famine was correct. What has kept food on our tables is the wide spread use of synthetic fertilizers, mostly from fossil fuels. Now the climate change movement wants to eliminate that. To whatever extent that they are successful, food shortages will follow.
That’s because, like all predictions, they fail to take into account adaptation, something Ehrlich was guilty of doing. Just posted an article about this. No computer models of future climate impacts include adaptability. That to me is amazing.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-the-epa-is-using-extreme-scenarios-to-produce-extreme-results-to-craft-policy/
There’s a race to develop technology that enables plants to obtain their nitrogen from the air (78% N2). Soybeans and other legumes do it. Considering the success of genetically modified seed, I’d betting on scientists getting it done.
The Dutch Farmers should be a insperation to American Farmers over plans to tear down Dams a blow to Gates and Soros and the Globalists Eco-Freaks