Climate obsessed Trudeau government going after farmers.
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at the history of famine and famine in the past and look at how technology has contributed to the eradication of hunger and famine around the world. We also talk about the impact of climate change and the potential impact it could have on food production and food access.
Transcript
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Worldwide, as recently as 1870, they hovered around 29 years. That was it. That's as long as we're
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going to live. Now, the advent of the Industrial Revolution was a game changer. I mean, it changed
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dramatically. So we got modern means of production, transportation advances, of course, the combustion
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engine. It led to a number of other technological advances, and we suddenly had an explosive
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improvement in the standard of living all around the world and expanded our life expectancies.
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So world life expectancy rose from 34 in 1913 to 46 by 1950, and it sits around 73 worldwide
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today. And in developed nations like our own, it's well over 80 years of age. Now, one of the main
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causes of early mortality historically used to be starvation and malnutrition. Food nutrition,
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their food production and preservation and distribution couldn't keep up with growing
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populations. So we'd have starvation, you know, up and down in times of drought, war, and the actions
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of dictatorships, like Stalin. It was relatively common until only just a few days ago. Now, the
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world's population, and I'm going somewhere with all this, was around 1.5 billion in 1870, and even
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then we couldn't feed much of it. The world population now is around 8 billion, and famine is actually
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barely a factor in mortality. I mean, when we look at the stats, almost 18 out of 100,000 people die
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annually from heart disease. 0.3 out of 100,000 die of starvation. This is a nice development.
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Now, we can't sustain human population growth in perpetuity, but we've learned that well-fed,
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prosperous nations tend to have the least amount of children. In most of the wealthiest cities in the
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world, population through local childbirth is actually going down. People who can afford to only
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have one, two, or perhaps even no children tend to do so. Developing nations, though, having large
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families is essential. With so many children dying young, unfortunately, due to disease, malnutrition,
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such, couples produce a large number of kids to make up the difference. And in some of the poorer
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nations, it's essential to have a large family to ensure that parents are cared for by children in
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their older years, because they don't have luxuries like pension plans. Now, if we're indeed concerned
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with slowing the growth of human population, you know, for the sake of the earth, the path's pretty
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clear. We need to modernize nations as much as possible and ensure they're well-fed. I mean,
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while starvation itself is rarely a killer any longer, malnutrition still contributes to many
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premature deaths. It's a factor, and we have a lot of room to improve on food security and access
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around the world. So here's where we get to Canada. Climate-obsessed, including Canada's own
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government, are fixated on attacking just about every advancement that human humanity has made in
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the last century. Energy impacts the cost of everything, and the green lunacy has contributed
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to shooting the cost of energy up at every opportunity as they work to shut down affordable means of
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energy generation in favor of impractical ones such as wind and solar. World energy prices are harming
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us, and in developed nations, they're outright devastating. You know, it's just they can't
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afford these hikes and things. So not consent, though, not content the green federal level government
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with just raising the food costs through spikes in energy costs. The Canadian government's now under
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the guidance of the UN setting their sights on attacking Canadian grain farmers. Yes, a new discussion
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document released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada titled, Reducing Emissions Arising from the
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Application of Fertilizer in Canada's Ag Sector Targets Grain Producers for Emission Reductions.
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And they've set massive targets, of course, just like they have with everything else, to cut it down.
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The government wants to crack down on fertilizer use among farmers. Now, modern fertilizers are a
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massive component in the mix of technological advances that have led to the world's virtual elimination
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of famine. Smaller plots of land can produce food more intensively and efficiently than ever
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imaginable. If we get rid of modern chemical means of fertilizer, crop yields are going to
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dramatically drop and immediately drop. Composting and using livestock dung, hey, that's all fine and
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dandy for home and hobby farm operations. We need modern controlled and broadly applied fertilizers in
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order to get viable returns in a commercial farm operation. Of all the types of crops that contribute to
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feeding the world, cereals top the list. They can be produced en masse. They have strong nutritional
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value. They keep well for cost-efficient shipping and storage. If you want to starve the world,
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the best place to begin would be hindering grain production. Canada is the third largest weed
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exporter in the world, and we rank among the top producers of many other grains as well. If we attack
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our own grain production, the impact's not only going to crush our local domestic farmers and put pressure
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on local food prices, it's going to impact food supply around the world. You can't be stressed enough just how
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dangerous this government plan to metal and grain production could be. Now, Russia and Ukraine are also top
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grain producers in the world, and due to the ongoing war there, exports from both nations, of course, are dropping.
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Not that the Trudeau's government plan to crack down on Canadian grain farmers will ever be a good one, but it's hard to
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imagine a worse time to do it than right now. If we really do care about the environment, we need to be
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increasing food production and security. We need to be bringing developed nations into energy and food
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security so they can take on environmental initiatives of their own. Nobody cares about global warming when
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they're starving or freezing to death. Crunching food supplies is going to lead to famine, and it's going to lead to
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other forms of unrest. Unfortunately, privileged climate crusaders such as Justin Trudeau and David Suzuki rarely look
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beyond their own comfortable affluent worlds. They want to make their personal mark on the world through battling climate
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change and don't really care what the human cost will come with it. Just let them eat cake, right? The Trudeau plan to hit
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the ag sector could be the most destructive of his entire tenure as a prime minister. It isn't making much news yet, but it
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should. We may be returning to a world where starvation becomes a leading cause of deaths in some nations again, and all because
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climate extremists who can't or won't see the impacts of their policies. Keep an eye on this one, guys.
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We've got a lot of bad policy going on already. Going after our farmers now, demanding reductions in 20% to 30% in the
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emissions below 2020 levels. That's some of the things in their plan. It's going to be devastating. It's not just
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going to hit us, it's going to hit the world. That Trudeau government is dangerous.