{"id":339423,"date":"2024-08-13T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339423"},"modified":"2024-08-13T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:46:04","slug":"who-is-directing-the-war-on-agriculture-and-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339423","title":{"rendered":"Who is directing the war on agriculture and nutrition?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government agencies, billionaires and pressure groups put world\u2019s poor, hungry families last<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Driessen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elite billionaire organizations<\/a> and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth\u2019s poorest, hungriest people. Instead of helping more families get nutritious food, better healthcare and higher living standards, they\u2019re doing the opposite, and harming biodiversity in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Economic Forum wants to reimagine, reinvent and transform<\/a> the global food system, to eliminate greenhouse gases from food production. Central to its plan is alternatives to animal protein: meal worm potato chips<\/a>, bug burgers instead of beef patties, and meat loaves and sausages made from lake flies<\/a>, for instance. Fixing the WEF\u2019s toxic workplace<\/a> is apparently a low priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A UN Food and Agriculture Organization report<\/a> advises that turning \u201cedible insects\u201d into \u201ctasty\u201d food products can create thriving local businesses and even promote \u201cinclusion of women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created to alleviate global poverty, the World Bank<\/a> has decided the \u201cmanmade climate crisis\u201d is a far greater threat to impoverished families than contaminated water, malaria and other killer diseases, hunger, or even two billion people still burning wood and dung because they don\u2019t have reliable, affordable electricity. It has unilaterally decreed that 45% of its funds \u2013 an extra $9 billion in FY2024 \u2013 will be shifted to helping the poor \u201cbetter withstand the devastation of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The Bank has also decided that even more of its taxpayer funding \u2013 $300-million instead of \u201conly\u201d $70-million \u2013 should be gifted to the Palestinian Authority<\/a>, which pays terrorists to murder Israelis.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, most of the better and lesser-known environmental pressure groups are also deeply involved in food, agriculture and energy policy campaigns: Greenpeace, Sierra Club, EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth, Pesticide Action Network, Center for Food Safety, La Via Campesina (The Peasant Way), Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, and countless others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the rest of the \u201cagro-ecology\u201d movement, they deride and malign modern agriculture as a scourge inflicted by greedy mega-corporations. They oppose fossil fuels, pesticides, herbicides and biotechnology. They extol \u201cfood sovereignty\u201d and the \u201cright to choose.\u201d But their policies reflect top-down tyranny and bullying, with little room for poor farmers to embrace modern agricultural technologies and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to WEF, FAO and World Bank support, these hard-green organizations have the ideological, organizational and financial backing of the US Agency for International Development, EU agencies, and a host of progressive and far-left American, European and other foundations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US-based AgroEcology Fund was created by the Christensen Fund<\/a>, New Fields Foundation<\/a> and Swift Foundation<\/a>. Its funding and programs are overseen by the New Venture Fund<\/a>, which helps \u201ccharitable\u201d and \u201ceducational\u201d organizations direct funds to programs that align with what many characterize as neo-colonialist and eco-imperialist goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other major players include the Schmidt Family Foundation, Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and Ben and Jerry Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is serious money \u2013 hundreds of millions of dollars per year in food, agriculture and climate change funding. It completely overshadows the piddling $9,000 that Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu raised via donations to his \u201cclimate realism\u201d website \u2013 much of it given to neighbors, so they could drill water wells, buy tanks of propane or get connected to the local grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet Mr. Machogu incurred the wrath of the BBC\u2019s \u201cClimate Disinformation Officer.\u201d (Yes, the Beeb actually has such a position.) The CDO attacked him for \u201ctweeting false and misleading claims\u201d about climate change and saying Africa should develop its oil, gas and coal reserves \u2013 instead of relying entirely on intermittent, weather-dependent wind and solar. Even worse, the farmer had the temerity to accept donations from non-Africans, including \u201cindividuals with links to the fossil fuel industry and groups known for promoting climate change denial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is another major donor to agro-ecology outfits. It\u2019s part of the legacy of guilt-ridden oil money from John D. Rockefeller\u2019s Standard Oil Co. corporate trust \u2013 an inheritance that includes nearly 1,000 climate-related institutions<\/a>, foundations and activist organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Canada\u2019s Frontier Centre put it, \u201cEvery time you hear a \u2018climate change\u2019 scare story, [the person writing it] was PAID. He is a Rockefeller stooge. He may not know it, but his profession has been entirely corrupted.\u201d Far worse, I would add, the writer and his (or her) organization are complicit in perpetuating global poverty, energy deprivation, hunger, disease and death \u2013 because the fearmongering drives destructive energy and food production policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alone or collectively, these policy corrupters must not be underestimated in this war to preserve and expand modern energy, agriculture and global nutrition. Thankfully, there is increasing pushback. Many families simply do not want to be trapped in poverty, disease, mud-and-thatch huts, an absence of educational opportunities for their children, and a future of backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk labor in little subsistence-farming fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s especially so when films, news stories and cell phones present American and European farming equipment and practices \u2013 and the crop yields, wealth, health, homes, leisure time and opportunities that accompany those modern agricultural systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poor farmers also see China, India, Indonesia and other countries rapidly industrializing and modernizing by using oil, gas and coal<\/a>. They see rumblings of change in many countries that are intent on charting their own courses, with fossil fuels as the energy foundation for that growth. They\u2019re rejecting the eco-colonialism and eco-imperialism that wealthy Westerners seek to impose on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are getting the message that humanity has faced climate fluctuations<\/a> and extreme weather events throughout history \u2026 and survived them, dealt with them, adapted to them, prospered. That there is no real-world evidence that manmade greenhouse gas emissions \u2013 especially the trivial amounts generated by agriculture<\/a> \u2013 have replaced the powerful natural forces that caused past climate changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They increasingly realize that organic and subsistence farming requires vastly more land \u2013 which would otherwise be wildlife habitats \u2013 than modern mechanized farming, to get the same yields. Plowing those habitats would decimate plant and animal diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That locking up fossil fuels, and relying instead on biofuels and plant-based feed stocks for thousands of essential products, would require even more acreage. So would mining for massive amounts of metals and minerals<\/a> to manufacture wind, solar and battery technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, they understand that humanity today has far greater wealth, far more knowledge, far better technologies and resources than any past generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To suggest that we cannot adapt to climate changes, or survive and recover from extreme weather events, is simply absurd. To suggest that farmers should revert to \u2026 or remain stuck in \u2026 ancient farming practices and technologies \u2013 to save the world from computer-generated manmade climate disasters \u2013 is eco-imperialism at its most lethal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa\u2019s electricity minister recently said his country will not be \u201cturned into a guinea pig<\/a> for a worldwide Green New Deal.\u201d Hopefully, all developing countries will soon apply that same attitude to anarchists who would use the world\u2019s poor as guinea pigs in global agricultural and nutrition experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org<\/a>) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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