{"id":245991,"date":"2023-02-27T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245991"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:58:28","slug":"british-net-zero-insanity-is-the-cause-of-winter-food-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245991","title":{"rendered":"British Net Zero Insanity is the Cause of Winter Food Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 Britain \u2026 reduced how many crops they have planted over the winter, \u2026 energy required to light and heat greenhouses and the cost of the fertiliser \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why are UK supermarkets facing fresh food shortages?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three big retailers are placing limits on shoppers on some produce lines. What is behind the rationing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanna Partridge<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Butler<\/a>Thu 23 Feb 2023 01.34 AEDT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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How big is the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morrisons has announced limits of two an item on packs of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and peppers, while Asda is restricting shoppers to three items each on eight fresh produce lines \u2013 including broccoli, cauliflower, raspberries and lettuces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, Tesco and Aldi joined them<\/a>, each limiting purchases of peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes to three packs a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is behind the shortages?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certain fresh vegetables and fruits are hard to come by in the UK as a result of an unfortunate combination of poor weather reducing the harvest<\/a> in Europe and north Africa, as well lower supplies from UK and Dutch producers hit by the jump in energy bills to heat glasshouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Britain and other northern European countries \u2013 particularly the Netherlands which is a big vegetable producer \u2013 have reduced how many crops they have planted over the winter, after the Ukraine war sent bills soaring<\/a> for the energy required to light and heat greenhouses and the cost of the fertiliser used on plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/feb\/22\/problem-shortage-fresh-food-uk-supermarkets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Who thinks Britain is ready for a climate friendly plant based diet<\/strong>, like the Guardian\u2019s George Monbiot<\/a> and other green radicals keep pushing, when supermarkets can\u2019t even reliably supply the basics? There doesn\u2019t seem to be much point pushing people to switch to a vegetable based diet, if nobody can buy any vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the Guardian blaming the Ukraine war for energy shortages a nonsensical copout<\/strong>. The root cause of the problem is the insane pursuit of Net Zero, and neglect of domestic British energy resources, which has exposed Britain to the geopolitical games of unreliable energy suppliers like Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin simply supplied the final push, which toppled the rotten edifice of British and European energy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything leads back to Britain\u2019s lack of access to affordable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia and Ukraine produced fertiliser and gas because they had lots of gas. They allowed their oil and gas fields to be developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain has large deposits of coal and frackable gas<\/a>, but is suffering high energy costs and shortages, because British politicians refuse to allow significant domestic energy deposits to be developed. They refuse to allow fracking entrepreneurs like Caudrilla<\/a> CEO Francis Egan to frack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain is not alone in pursuing green energy insanity. The following video is Putin in 2010, laughing with an audience of supporters in Russia about the foolishness of German politicians, about how their energy policies were making Germany utterly dependent on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2010, Putin made a joke about Germany's apparent disdain for the nuclear power and gas industries, proposing that the only alternative they'd have left for heating their homes is firewood. Fast forward to 2021, and the joke may have turned into an unfortunate prophecy. pic.twitter.com\/oejgWfPVG1<\/a><\/p>— RT (@RT_com) October 2, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>