“We’ll just get kicked off the land.”
Doug Sheridan
As Bloomberg reports, the radical greens have decided that the best way to contain all that belching and tooting is to shut down all the farms and throw the farmers off their lands. And the best way to achieve that is for governments to deny the farmers access to ammonia-based fertilizers.
It turns out, though, that the farmers being deprived of their livelihoods and family legacies by public officials in Holland and elsewhere who genuflect at the virtue-signaling altar of climate alarm are not especially enamored of this concept, and some are even fighting back.
Here is an excerpt from that story:
It took an existential threat to turn a fifth-generation dairy farmer into an anti-government protester.
Bart Kooijman raises 120 cows on 50 hectares in western Holland. If authorities push ahead with plans to halve nitrogen emissions from agriculture by 2030, his could be among thousands of farms that will have to shrink or close.
In an attempt to quell a summer of fury, which saw farmers setting hay bales ablaze and dumping manure on motorways, the government said in November it would buy out as many as 3,000 of the biggest emitters in a voluntary one-time offer, setting aside €24.3 billion ($25.6 billion) to fund the transition. Those who refuse will be forced out of business.
“We don’t want to make fires or block roads but if we do nothing, it’s over,” says Kooijman, a father of two. “We’ll just get kicked off the land.”