Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11 200 farms to meet climate goals
The farmers are not happy about it.
If you have followed my reporting you probably know about the protests happening in the Netherlands. Tens of thousands of farmers have taken to the streets to protest against new climate goals which will force farmers to shut down their farms.
They have set hay bales on fire on motorways and dumped manure and even blocked supermarket distribution centers.
Around 1/5 of farms will be forced to shut down!
According to calculations done by the Finance ministry, a whopping 11 200 livestock farmers will be forced to shut down by the government to reduce nitrogen emissions in order to meet European environmental rules. Another 17 600 farmers would need to reduce the amount of animals they keep to meet these climate goals.
2 comments:
the question becomes will they submit or resist further. further is one bit of our only hope.
If you get rid of the farms, especially extremely efficient farms, where will the food come from?
Somebody else will have to grow the food somewhere else and then ship it to Europe. The transport (truck, ship, rail, air) will add to the food's carbon footprint even if less nitrogen is released when the same crop/animal is raised/grown in Africa or India or some other third-world country.
This is, of course, another useless robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul scenario, one more law that politicians love because it "justifies" their existence, makes them look like they're saving-the-planet do-gooders and, most importantly, gives them even MORE power over the lives of others - in this case Dutch farmers (but it won't stop with them).
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