Western Standard - Climate obsessed Trudeau government going after farmers.

00:00:00.240 Worldwide, as recently as 1870, they hovered around 29 years. That was it. That's as long as we're

00:00:06.160 going to live. Now, the advent of the Industrial Revolution was a game changer. I mean, it changed

00:00:10.160 dramatically. So we got modern means of production, transportation advances, of course, the combustion

00:00:15.780 engine. It led to a number of other technological advances, and we suddenly had an explosive

00:00:20.000 improvement in the standard of living all around the world and expanded our life expectancies.

00:00:24.620 So world life expectancy rose from 34 in 1913 to 46 by 1950, and it sits around 73 worldwide

00:00:32.020 today. And in developed nations like our own, it's well over 80 years of age. Now, one of the main

00:00:37.440 causes of early mortality historically used to be starvation and malnutrition. Food nutrition,

00:00:43.100 their food production and preservation and distribution couldn't keep up with growing

00:00:45.840 populations. So we'd have starvation, you know, up and down in times of drought, war, and the actions

00:00:50.420 of dictatorships, like Stalin. It was relatively common until only just a few days ago. Now, the

00:00:55.880 world's population, and I'm going somewhere with all this, was around 1.5 billion in 1870, and even

00:01:01.880 then we couldn't feed much of it. The world population now is around 8 billion, and famine is actually

00:01:07.580 barely a factor in mortality. I mean, when we look at the stats, almost 18 out of 100,000 people die

00:01:13.500 annually from heart disease. 0.3 out of 100,000 die of starvation. This is a nice development.

00:01:21.100 Now, we can't sustain human population growth in perpetuity, but we've learned that well-fed,

00:01:26.200 prosperous nations tend to have the least amount of children. In most of the wealthiest cities in the

00:01:30.540 world, population through local childbirth is actually going down. People who can afford to only

00:01:34.980 have one, two, or perhaps even no children tend to do so. Developing nations, though, having large

00:01:40.380 families is essential. With so many children dying young, unfortunately, due to disease, malnutrition,

00:01:45.080 such, couples produce a large number of kids to make up the difference. And in some of the poorer

00:01:48.820 nations, it's essential to have a large family to ensure that parents are cared for by children in

00:01:53.480 their older years, because they don't have luxuries like pension plans. Now, if we're indeed concerned

00:01:58.920 with slowing the growth of human population, you know, for the sake of the earth, the path's pretty

00:02:02.920 clear. We need to modernize nations as much as possible and ensure they're well-fed. I mean,

00:02:07.400 while starvation itself is rarely a killer any longer, malnutrition still contributes to many

00:02:12.660 premature deaths. It's a factor, and we have a lot of room to improve on food security and access

00:02:16.860 around the world. So here's where we get to Canada. Climate-obsessed, including Canada's own

00:02:23.120 government, are fixated on attacking just about every advancement that human humanity has made in

00:02:27.180 the last century. Energy impacts the cost of everything, and the green lunacy has contributed 0.98

00:02:31.720 to shooting the cost of energy up at every opportunity as they work to shut down affordable means of

00:02:36.840 energy generation in favor of impractical ones such as wind and solar. World energy prices are harming

00:02:42.480 us, and in developed nations, they're outright devastating. You know, it's just they can't

00:02:47.540 afford these hikes and things. So not consent, though, not content the green federal level government

00:02:51.980 with just raising the food costs through spikes in energy costs. The Canadian government's now under

00:02:56.400 the guidance of the UN setting their sights on attacking Canadian grain farmers. Yes, a new discussion

00:03:02.580 document released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada titled, Reducing Emissions Arising from the

00:03:08.100 Application of Fertilizer in Canada's Ag Sector Targets Grain Producers for Emission Reductions.

00:03:12.960 And they've set massive targets, of course, just like they have with everything else, to cut it down.

00:03:17.620 The government wants to crack down on fertilizer use among farmers. Now, modern fertilizers are a

00:03:24.300 massive component in the mix of technological advances that have led to the world's virtual elimination

00:03:28.840 of famine. Smaller plots of land can produce food more intensively and efficiently than ever

00:03:33.980 imaginable. If we get rid of modern chemical means of fertilizer, crop yields are going to

00:03:38.880 dramatically drop and immediately drop. Composting and using livestock dung, hey, that's all fine and

00:03:44.660 dandy for home and hobby farm operations. We need modern controlled and broadly applied fertilizers in

00:03:50.600 order to get viable returns in a commercial farm operation. Of all the types of crops that contribute to

00:03:56.540 feeding the world, cereals top the list. They can be produced en masse. They have strong nutritional

00:04:01.180 value. They keep well for cost-efficient shipping and storage. If you want to starve the world,

00:04:06.600 the best place to begin would be hindering grain production. Canada is the third largest weed 0.73

00:04:10.940 exporter in the world, and we rank among the top producers of many other grains as well. If we attack

00:04:15.420 our own grain production, the impact's not only going to crush our local domestic farmers and put pressure

00:04:21.260 on local food prices, it's going to impact food supply around the world. You can't be stressed enough just how

00:04:27.200 dangerous this government plan to metal and grain production could be. Now, Russia and Ukraine are also top

00:04:33.700 grain producers in the world, and due to the ongoing war there, exports from both nations, of course, are dropping.

00:04:39.900 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

00:04:44.400 imagine a worse time to do it than right now. If we really do care about the environment, we need to be

00:04:48.880 increasing food production and security. We need to be bringing developed nations into energy and food

00:04:54.340 security so they can take on environmental initiatives of their own. Nobody cares about global warming when

00:04:59.840 they're starving or freezing to death. Crunching food supplies is going to lead to famine, and it's going to lead to

00:05:04.840 other forms of unrest. Unfortunately, privileged climate crusaders such as Justin Trudeau and David Suzuki rarely look

00:05:11.160 beyond their own comfortable affluent worlds. They want to make their personal mark on the world through battling climate

00:05:16.560 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

00:05:22.400 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

00:05:28.760 should. We may be returning to a world where starvation becomes a leading cause of deaths in some nations again, and all because

00:05:34.640 climate extremists who can't or won't see the impacts of their policies. Keep an eye on this one, guys.

00:05:41.160 We've got a lot of bad policy going on already. Going after our farmers now, demanding reductions in 20% to 30% in the

00:05:49.860 emissions below 2020 levels. That's some of the things in their plan. It's going to be devastating. It's not just

00:05:55.700 going to hit us, it's going to hit the world. That Trudeau government is dangerous.

Western Standard - April 25, 2022

Climate obsessed Trudeau government going after farmers.

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