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Broke, scraggly, and hongry

The price of going Green is multifarious, untethered to any kind of reality, and utterly ruinous.

The issue is that farmland without fertilizer is vastly less productive. Without fertilizer, corn and wheat yields in the United States would decline by more than 40%. But as prices promise to go much higher, farmers will either have to skimp on fertilizer or raise prices of their own products a lot.

Then, too, there are skyrocketing prices for gasoline and diesel, which are essential for today’s mechanized farming and for getting food to consumers. Add these increases in cost and decreases in production to the shortages likely to come from the Ukraine invasion, and we’re looking at really dramatic increases in food prices. In the West this will mean discomfort. Elsewhere it will mean starvation. Bureaucrats aren’t helping.

Some people want to put more land under cultivation. Scottish farmers and planners have asked the government to allow farmland programmed for “rewilding” to be put back into production in response to anticipated food shortages. But that’s too sensible for our green elites. Scotland’s Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Lorna Slater — yes, that’s her full title — has flatly refused. According to Slater, “We are still in a nature emergency that hasn’t gone away…so it’s a no.”

Nature emergencies outrank human emergencies in the green world, so that’s not a surprise. Voters may feel differently as prices skyrocket.The island nation of Sri Lanka offers a stark warning. A green experiment in abandoning artificial fertilizer there — encouraged by the Rockefeller Foundation — was a “brutal and swift” economic and humanitarian disaster, Foreign Policy reports.

“Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.”

FP continues: “Human costs have been even greater. Prior to the pandemic’s outbreak, the country had proudly achieved upper-middle-income status. Today, half a million people have sunk back into poverty.”

Sri Lanka’s policy, which FP describes as a “farrago of magical thinking, technocratic hubris, ideological delusion, self-dealing and sheer shortsightedness,” imposed enormous human damage on the nation. But don’t worry — the government and NGO officials behind it won’t miss any meals. Consequences are for the little people.

With the triple-barreled threat of inflation, soaring fuel prices and shrunken food supplies, the world faces something like the same fate, and once again those responsible are unlikely to pay the price. (But maybe some will. After all, food shortages led to the Arab Spring riots and the overturning of governments.)

Regardless, the world’s policymakers need to take a less casual approach to the well-being of the world’s population. That very much includes those in the Biden administration. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s response to concerns about fertilizer and food shortages: “Maybe sacrifices are necessary.” You can rest assured Vilsack won’t be the one making them.

And that right there is PRECISELY what must be changed. Right across the board we see that politicians and bureaucrats have stood the natural order of things right on its head; a proper balance must be restored , forcefully and without further delay.

Update! Divemedic unearths more enviro-folly.

The Federal government has rescinded the license extension of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, located near Miami. The stated reason is that global climate change will cause sea levels to rise, and the plant’s environmental impact statement didn’t take that into account.

So instead, we will continue to rely upon coal plants. There is no way that wind and solar can make up for the loss of this plant. That plant produces 12 gigawatt hours of electric power per year.

In comparison, every solar panel in the state of Florida produces 7.5 gigawatt hours each year, combined.

The aforementioned price isn’t paid in dollars and cents alone, not by a long yard. But no matter the currency, human misery and deprivation is always what we’re buying.

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8 thoughts on “Broke, scraggly, and hongry

  1. Hey, let’s buy more solar from … China. The panels will last forever, right?

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  2. Scotland’s Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Lorna Slater…

    Lorna Slater should be BBQ’d. That will solve the hunger problem for a few people for a few days.

  3. The people of Sri Lanka will find out that government and NGO officials may be employed as ready and excellent fertilizer.

  4. This all by design, to Reset you have to isolate, and genocide the only armed country in the new empire.

  5. Everything they do is ruinous to America and Americans. If they were merely stupid and incompetent they’re blundering would sometimes help America and Americans.

    Failure is the Plan™.

    They literally have a Game Plan outlined by Cloward and Piven and if you understand those two and their ideas then it’s obvious this is exactly the playbook they are running.

    They are the same 60s radicals behind this as were behind 0bozo.

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  6. According to Slater, “We are still in a nature emergency that hasn’t gone away…so it’s a no.”

    Ah yes. The never-ending “emergency” that justifies never-ending expansion of government power. Remarkably convenient, that.

    One of the biggest scams here in the US is the continuing “bio-fuels” mandates for ethanol in gasoline, burning big chunks of our corn harvest as vehicle fuel rather than using it for human and animal feed. It makes no sense at all for the environment to spend lots of fertilizer, gas, and diesel growing, harvesting, and converting crops into ethanol and shipping it around to gas stations across the nation. But it sure does line the pockets of BigAg and the senators owned by BigAg.

  7. By the way, a good place for a reminder:

    If you have not been putting up food stocks for a manufactured or catastrophe caused shortage, then get ahead to beat inflation to some degree. Meat items being expensive, it pays to get ahead if you can. Small chest freezers ($300) are more available now than they were 6 months back. You can get a lot of hamburger in one (I have two freezers, both full)*, rotate it out so your investment doesn’t get wasted. Canned meats are always good, especially for shortages. I keep canned chicken, hams, spam, and tuna on hand. I also keep country ham and sardines because I like them.

    Don’t forget some canned vegetables, fruits, and flour. Rice will stretch most of your food out and half the world lives on the stuff…

    You’ll have food if there is a shortage and save money if not.

    *I keep hamburger, pot roasts, turkey, hams, and chicken frozen. Plus assorted other items.

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