Left Unchecked, Climate Policies Will Cause Worldwide Starvation
Farmers and ranchers who assume that their main job is to produce food to feed hungry people stand corrected. John Kerry, the Biden administration’s special envoy on climate, wants to enlist them in the global struggle to combat the “climate crisis”
“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33 percent of all the emission in the world,” Kerry said during his May 17 keynote address at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM Climate Summit. “We can’t get to net-zero, we can’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us here understand the depths of this mission.”
“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way we do the things we’ve been doing,” he continued. “With a growing population on the planet – we’ve just crossed the threshold of eight billion fellow citizens around the world – emissions from the food system alone are expected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.”
“This sector need innovation now more than ever,” Kerry went on. “We’re facing record malnutrition at a time when agriculture, more than any other sector, is suffering more than ever from the impacts of the climate crisis. And I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis.”
“We need economic, social, and policy innovation in order to scale adaptation of these technical solutions and get them into the hands of the folks in the fields of small farmers on a global basis. This is the promise of AIM for Climate Summit.”
Farmers won’t have to wait long for the “innovations” Kerry mentioned to come their way.
The Biden administration has already pledged to take an “all of government” approach to addressing the “climate crisis,” and they mean business.
Every agency of the federal government – from the Pentagon and HUD to the energy and agriculture departments – are pouring taxpayer-supplied resources into ever-expanding climate programs.
The Department of Agriculture is already exhorting farmers to adopt “climate smart” policies when it comes to producing food. It is even dangling “climate-smart” grants before agricultural groups to get them to change their ways and grow food they way John Kerry and his ilk want them to do.
Though the Department of Agriculture has yet to elaborate on what it means by “climate smart,” it most certainly entails the agricultural sector severing ties to ‘fossil fuels’, either “voluntarily” or through coercion in the form of regulations.
But because of natural gas’s role in making fertilizer, the government-forced transition will be a messy one.
Farmers in places as far apart as Sri Lanka and the Netherlands were ordered by their respective governments to shrink their ‘carbon’ footprint by reducing their nitrogen emissions.
Protests in the Netherlands have been widespread, and in Sri Lanka, the government was overthrown, with the president forced to flee the country.
Lessons Not Learned
The climate misadventures in the Netherlands and Sri Lanka show what happens when people who know nothing about agriculture — and even less about the climate — impose policies on farmers that are divorced from the realities involved in producing food.
When climate zealots mess with the food supply, they’re asking for trouble.
Farmers in the U.S. are about to be told by urban elites how to run their farms.
It won’t end well.
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About the author: Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. Dr. Cohen has addressed conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh. He has a B.A. from the University of Georgia and a PhD from the University of Munich
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Alan
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They are not really climate policies. They are socialist policies to create a rich elite and poverty and death for the rest of us.
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Tom Anderson
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Alan is right. We must not forget, however, that the climate “debate” is fertile ground for atheistic fanaticism, probably by design. Ian Plimer noted it in his “Heaven and Earth,” on the missing science of CAGWH. A few decades earlier Eric Hoffer called this species “True Believers” – hellfire fundamentalists without a God. G.K. Chesterton had noted much earlier that when people stopped believing in God the problem was not that they believed in nothing, but that they would believe in anything. … And how.
There is no way to “reason” with the tribe. Reason doesn’t come into it. This may not entirely apply, of course to politicians like John Kerry who seem to care more about getting votes than environmental beatitude or salvation.
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Jakie
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They do have a god…the one who runs this planet…Satan.
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