{"id":259435,"date":"2023-05-28T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T10:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259435"},"modified":"2023-05-28T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T10:41:04","slug":"the-climate-war-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259435","title":{"rendered":"The climate war on food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then they came for our food supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org<\/strong><\/a> on \u201cclimate czar\u201d John Kerry\u2019s recent pronouncements at a Department of Agriculture summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t get to net-zero,\u201d Kerry said, \u201cwe can\u2019t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us here understand the depths of this mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFood systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way we do the things we\u2019ve been doing,\u201d he continued. \u201cWith a growing population on the planet \u2013 we\u2019ve just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world \u2013 emissions from the food system alone are expected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonner fleshes out what Kerry\u2019s words mean in practice:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThough the Department of Agriculture has yet to elaborate on what it means by \u2018climate smart,\u2019 it most certainly entails the agricultural sector severing ties to fossil fuels, either \u2018voluntarily\u2019 or through coercion in the form of regulations. But because of natural gas\u2019s role in making fertilizer, the government-forced transition will be a messy one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonner also touched<\/strong><\/a> on the nightmare unleashed when other nations have tried to apply climate radicalism to agriculture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFarmers in places as far apart as Sri Lanka and the Netherlands were ordered by their respective governments to shrink their carbon footprint by reducing their nitrogen emissions. Protests in the Netherlands have been widespread, and in Sri Lanka, the government was overthrown, with the president forced to flee the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all of human times, until quite recently in fact, hunger and privation were the norm.  Then, during the last hundred years we have seen a revolution in world agriculture that has dramatically reduced, and come close to eradicating world hunger for good.  In many societies, ours included, too many calories have become the challenge.  That is a problem our forebears could scarcely imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are few things as fundamental as the need for our abundant food supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We dare not permit the climate-left to bring back hunger and starvation \u2014 or heaven forbid, force us to eat insects or fake meat as our only options to avoid it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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