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Posted on 05/09/2024 6:10:13 AM PDT by george76
...we need to go back to when agriculture was inefficient.
Good idea. There are too many proles anyway, right? Time to thin the herd.
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Climate change hysteria is a magic force in the hands of an elite that has been preaching deindustrialization and mass culling of human beings since the early 1960s.
What was once a fringe movement led by the truly insane Club of Rome and Paul Ehrlich has gone mainstream, at least among the Leftists who are at the top of the social pyramid these days. The UN, WEF, IPCC, MSM, and of course the EU and the current President of the United States.
The result? European countries culling herds of livestock, closing down farms, and discouraging the use of fertilizer.
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What is immiserating in Western countries will undoubtedly be deadly in less prosperous places.
Talk to anybody in the food and farming industry these days and it won’t be long before someone brings up regenerative agriculture. Farming in a more nature-friendly way, reminiscent of pre-war practices, for a long time “regen” has been bracketed as a niche, hippy pursuit.
But with our crops under water, olive oil at the price of a decent bottle of wine and chocolate supply under threat from a virus wiping out cacao plants in West Africa, the corporate world is starting to wake up to the risks to our future food supply.
Globally, agriculture is responsible for around 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss. We all need to eat, but with climate change undermining our ability to produce food, is there a better way?
James Bailey, the affable executive director of Waitrose, thinks so. “I don’t think it’s widely understood the impact that the food system has on climate,” he tells me. “On a big, philosophical level, it affects everyone.”
Affable. I suppose you can be as you set in motion the mass starvation of billions when you yourself are a wealthy and comfortable man. Just as Paul Ehrlich sat in his ivory tower preaching the extermination of billions, the mass sterilization of millions, and the immiseration of everybody, it is pretty comfortable when you can look down from above at the devastation you are wreaking.
While other supermarkets have made commitments on net zero, and Tesco offers financing to its suppliers wanting to switch to greener energy sources, Waitrose is the first to make such a clear commitment across its aisles, including meat and dairy products.
Unlike organic, which has a strict set of standards that includes no genetically modified ingredients and limits on pesticide and antibiotic use, regenerative agriculture is more of a philosophy of farming, centred around protecting the soil to improve its biodiversity and ability to store carbon. Ways this can be achieved include avoiding ploughing, reducing fertiliser use, and using cover crops during the winter months to protect the soil.
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Bailey says the farmers he has spoken to about the shift liken it to a return to farming “how their dad used to farm 50 years ago. There’s almost no fertilisers or inputs, we don’t till the soil, the cows are left out to their own devices,” he says.
I am pretty sure that the billions who have faced mass starvation through famine before industrial agriculture are not quite so nostalgic for the "good ol' times." It's a joke now, but when I was growing up parents used to chide us for not cleaning our plate by referring to the starving children in India and China.
It wasn't funny back then. There really were starving children in China and India. And, of course, in Africa.
Cheap food is one of the great modern miracles, and that is not an exaggeration. As much as anything else, the invention of methods to produce inexpensive food has extended lifespans and healthspans, slashed poverty, saved children, and relieved parents of the horrors of watching their children starve to death.
Climate cultists think we should go back to the good times when people starved.
Sure, they don't put it that way, but that is what they mean. It is the inevitable consequence of their policies.
The Netherlands, for instance, is the most productive agricultural nation in the world. So they are closing down farms, of course. That policy is being duplicated across Europe to satisfy the Climate gods.
No doubt wine producers will still be in business--the elites love wine, after all. But food for the plebs must be reduced.
I think we’re seeing the end of the era of cheap food, because of the impact of that cheap food – not just on people’s health but the external impact, the environmental impact, the societal impact of that cheap food. We need to witness the end of cheap food and a reversal of the value of the food people are eating.”
'If food production becomes much less stable, you're going to see prices going up anyway, but for the wrong reasons,' says Bailey
Waitrose is hoping to appeal to its existing shoppers, who have both the time and money to choose a more expensive product that has a lower climate impact. In surveys conducted by the supermarket, it has found that nearly half of customers proactively say they care about the impact of food on the environment and nature.
There it is, in black and white: the rich won't suffer—just the plebs.
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Soylent Green will be cheap.
I thought the whole point behind importing millions of illegals was so that coastal elites would have cheap arugula and avocados.
Population control has been an obsession of the Rockefeller family since at least the 1920s.
Like FDR did in the 1930s. Buy up, kill and bury millions of cattle and hogs to get the price up, Up, UP! even though people were starving as they had no jobs to buy food when it was even cheap.
Because of.....Bill gates.................
Well, I farmed for a year and grew a crop of corn
That stretched as far as the eye can see
That’s a whole lot of cornflakes,
Near enough to feed New York till 1973
Cultivation is my station and the nation
Buys my corn from me immediately
And holding sixty thousand bucks, I watch as dumper trucks
Tip New York’s corn flakes in the sea
- The Who (Now I’m A Farmer)
The Left has always been about getting power over others.
At one time, the Left wanted to execute the monarchs and aristocracy, raise up the working class and peasants and throw down the rich and the bourgeoisie. Ambitious political activists from the French Revolution, to Marx, to Lenin all saw this path as the path to getting power over others.
Today it’s different. Now the Left despises poor people and people who didn’t graduate from a university. Blue collar workers? They deserve no respect. We need to thin the herd and reduce the population by removing dirty people who work with their hands. Ambitious political activists today know that making deals with rich people in order to destroy individual rights and freedom is the path to getting power over others.
Basically it’s the Khoisan plan.
They had a vision that, if they killed their cattle, they could save themselves from the Boer. So they did.
The left is having the same vision. Kill off the food and we will save the earth.
The Left hasn’t changed one bit.
If they ever get power, this is what we have in store....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTltWU1e7w
“Climate Change” doesn’t just make energy artificially scarce, it also adds artificial scarcity to food supplies and other necessities.
Artificial scarcity, or restricting supply as well as controlling distribution, was perfected by capitalists primarily on non-essential commodities, particularly intellectual property, which otherwise would be difficult to control the spread of without laws forcing consumers to go through specific providers.
While I would say that controlling access to something of value is not new, and would go as far back as hunter gatherers giving up nomadic life to protect a food supply or natural resource and forcing others to trade with them for it, but now it’s the marxist/globalists who seem to be in on this game. They realize that restriction of access to LIFE ESSENTIAL commodities is POWER to a level much much more efficient than violent oppression, because it cows the masses into submission without the need to administer distributed means of force.
Some people will be happy when we are all eating insects & waste material. Well, not ALL of us will be doing this; just the “normal” folks who can no longer afford the groceries we were used to once upon a time. I tend to shop for groceries as cheaply as I can & still get mostly what I prefer to eat, but prices are getting ridiculous.
Restricting supplies of food so as to facilitate control has been part of the government playbook as long as we have histories of government.
The Sumerians did it. The Egyptians did it. In more modern times, the Holodomor in Ukraine and Pol Pot in Cambodia are excellent examples.
The left has always despised the poor. Their philosophy came from offspring of the wealthy. They used to poor to implement their strategies and then eliminated the poor in wars and via starvation. They kept just enough around to keep things chugging along.
It’s not just a question of cheap food. They are using regulation to create a famine. Genocide by guile.
Very informative. I also learned a very unnecessary word: “immiseration”. “Privation”, “deprivation”, “suffering”, “indigence” — these all seem to work just fine for me.
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