Western Standard - June 08, 2023


Climate obsessed governments are reducing world food supplies

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Justin Trudeau David Suzuki
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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the latest attack on food production around the world by climate zealots, and why we should be worried about it. We ve all heard of the horrors of climate change, and now we re turning our attention to food production as a means to fight climate change.

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00:00:00.000 And think about it, if you want to control a population, control its food supply, right?
00:00:03.640 I mean, we're in this world where every little entitlement and desire is defined as a need or a human right,
00:00:08.540 and people are protesting for it, yet at the same time we're quietly letting ideologically driven political leaders
00:00:14.100 threaten what there is a very real right to and need for reliable, affordable food supplies.
00:00:20.560 So this latest attack on food production that we're reading about comes from Ireland,
00:00:24.500 where the government's proposing the slaughter of 200,000 dairy cows in an effort to reach EU climate change targets.
00:00:32.180 Now, the climate impact of culling these animals is going to be negligible at best,
00:00:36.480 but the impact on Irish consumers and food producers is going to be immediate and harsh.
00:00:41.040 I mean, dairy products, they're infused into most European food supplies.
00:00:44.560 The slaughter of these cattle is going to immediately raise prices on most food items,
00:00:48.420 and it's probably going to put a lot of producers out of work, and not going to do a bloody thing for the environment.
00:00:52.100 But climate zealots, they don't care.
00:00:54.560 They're undeterred by protests or economic reality.
00:00:57.720 They just want to shut down human activity by all and any means possible.
00:01:02.620 You're not talking about rational, reasonable people here.
00:01:05.720 Even in Sri Lanka, I mean, this is a nation that's not a stranger to hard times and famine and relatively recent memory.
00:01:11.900 Well, their government imposed ridiculous regulations banning types of fertilizer
00:01:15.820 and encouraging these inefficient organic growing practices.
00:01:19.180 At least with them, they got stirred up enough it spawned protests that actually took down their own government.
00:01:24.380 That was only a couple of years ago.
00:01:26.020 But still, the push doesn't stop.
00:01:27.940 In the Netherlands, the state's been at war with its own farmers since 2019,
00:01:32.020 when nationwide protests were spawned by nitrogen and ammonia bans at the expense of the agricultural producers.
00:01:38.000 Farm protests have been crippling their nation at times, but the government's still undeterred,
00:01:42.200 and they're working towards forcing the reduction of livestock herds
00:01:45.020 and taking land away from agricultural producers in the Netherlands.
00:01:47.740 And hey, don't think it's just happening overseas, guys.
00:01:50.740 Canada isn't far behind.
00:01:51.960 The Trudeau government suggested a 30% reduction in fertilizer use by agricultural producers.
00:01:57.840 I mean, such a reduction would deeply cut into crop outputs,
00:02:01.560 and the notion sparked a quick backlash from Canadian agricultural producers.
00:02:05.340 The government then hastily pointed out the 30% reduction is voluntary for producers.
00:02:08.900 But of course, what they're saying is, for now. 0.99
00:02:12.660 I mean, these guys are nuts. 0.88
00:02:14.080 They put $8.5 million into a cricket production facility. 0.99
00:02:18.720 Crickets for human consumption.
00:02:20.160 Yes, this is how mad they are.
00:02:21.500 I'm not making this stuff up.
00:02:22.440 Look it up.
00:02:23.220 $8.5 million.
00:02:23.960 Your tax dollars went to cricket production while they're attacking food production here.
00:02:28.800 We're being governed by zealots.
00:02:31.160 Don't expect rationality to come from Ottawa anytime soon.
00:02:33.760 Justin Trudeau desperately wants to be respected on the world stage.
00:02:36.900 He knows his intellect isn't going to get him there,
00:02:38.640 so he's hoping his actions as a climate crusader will garner him the international adoration he wants to revel in.
00:02:45.940 He knows nothing of supply chains, food needs, or agricultural production.
00:02:49.780 I mean, think about it.
00:02:50.480 Canada is led by a man whose servants shop for him 0.99
00:02:52.780 and chill his favorite cereal bowl in the mornings while he tries to pick out cute socks for the day.
00:02:57.180 He's never seen a grocery bill, much less a balance sheet from a farm.
00:03:01.540 But he's in the position to control our food supplies.
00:03:03.740 Think about that.
00:03:05.080 NGOs and environmental groups feed the agenda further.
00:03:07.820 The Suzuki Foundation.
00:03:09.020 Ah, yes.
00:03:09.480 David Suzuki and his foundation with his many, many homes just came out against domestic beekeeping.
00:03:15.720 Yes.
00:03:16.360 Because domesticated bees, as far as they're concerned, are a form of unnatural livestock,
00:03:20.300 and they might pressure wild bee populations.
00:03:23.320 Yeah.
00:03:23.940 Aside from the honey they produce, domestic bees are sort of an integral part of crop pollination for agricultural producers.
00:03:30.360 Bees are actually rented by farmers for this purpose.
00:03:34.500 Their crop yields will go down if they don't have these bees. 1.00
00:03:37.100 Suzuki and his elk don't care.
00:03:39.400 They aren't pro-environment.
00:03:40.700 That's what we've got to get driven to people's heads.
00:03:42.300 They are not pro-environment.
00:03:43.260 They're anti-human.
00:03:44.620 Big difference.
00:03:45.620 They want to drop world populations, and they don't care what it takes to do it. 0.99
00:03:50.540 Arguably, I guess.
00:03:51.440 A reduced world population would ease environmental pressures on the planet, whether from, you know,
00:03:56.700 the reduction in trash, water contamination, emissions.
00:03:59.180 Sure.
00:03:59.680 Fine.
00:04:00.520 But reducing the efficiency of food production isn't going to reduce the world's population
00:04:04.440 or improve the environment.
00:04:05.920 It's just going to make populations desperate, hungry, and impoverished.
00:04:10.240 The most environmentally friendly populations on the planet are all in the richest nations.
00:04:14.420 Blue bins, emission reduction plans, comprehensive waste management, those are all luxuries developing nations lack. 1.00
00:04:20.440 We take them for granted here.
00:04:22.180 Having a low birth rate is also a luxury only afforded to wealthy nations.
00:04:25.820 In developing nations, people need large families in order to survive and sustain a retirement.
00:04:30.300 In developed nations such as ours, we need immigration to counter our low birth rates.
00:04:35.280 Developing nations are also forced, of course, to use inefficient food production means,
00:04:38.600 such as slash-and-burn farming and burning high-emitting fuels from wood to coal to even animal dung to cook their food sometimes.
00:04:45.320 If we want to slow or even reduce human population growth, the path is through economic development for developing nations.
00:04:51.660 Make them rich enough to afford to be nice to the environment and stop breeding like we've been able to.
00:04:55.540 To do that, they need reliable, plentiful energy and food supplies.
00:05:00.420 And they need to become wealthy enough to cut back on breeding. 0.97
00:05:03.280 In other words, they need to do the opposite of what the environmentally fanatical nations are pushing them to do.
00:05:08.120 They don't need more windmills.
00:05:09.720 They don't need organic farming.
00:05:11.680 They need natural gas networks heating their homes and generating their power.
00:05:15.140 They need modern farms along with the associated chemicals for pest control and fertilizer.
00:05:19.140 In other words, they need all those things that Justin Trudeau and other vain virtue-signaling world leaders are denying from them.
00:05:26.220 Canada has abundant resources.
00:05:27.880 Not only will we not expand development of them for ourselves,
00:05:31.260 we're also being prevented from exporting them to those nations that need them most.
00:05:35.140 The environmental movement's hit new, revolting extremes.
00:05:38.160 It's working basically to starve populations into what they think is going to be a greener, new world, and it won't come.
00:05:43.540 The alarm bells are ringing now, guys.
00:05:45.400 Are we going to act and reverse this madness and food reduction,
00:05:47.800 or are we going to wait until the starvation actually sets in?
00:05:50.820 And guys, it's just going to start with the developing nations.
00:05:53.120 Don't think for a moment that we're immune for it and it won't come here next.