My adopted city of Lismore (New South Wales) has more than its fair share of the PGGWC (progressive, green, globalist, woke, Covid) class.
Indeed, in my own block we have both a “climate action now” sign and a “farms not coal” bumper sticker. Indeed, the eastern (Ballina) end of town has a large sign warning those entering the city that 97 per cent of residents said “no” to coal seam gas. One’s obvious response would probably be – only 97 per cent? The recent disastrous floods led to suggestions in some areas that we ere at the “frontline” of the “climate emergency”. We very nearly got a Greens MP at the 2019 NSW State election (when I stood as a candidate for the Australian Conservatives). Alas, she is now a Member of the Upper House.
It was the “farms not coal” bumper sticker that got my attention. Yes, not so long ago, locals attacking proposals for coal seam gas exploration were using the cause of agriculture to justify their attack on fossil fuels. Now their mates among the ruling class are coming for the farms. Don’t be ridiculous, you say. Well, who, a decade ago, would have thought it even remotely possible that we would be shutting down our industrial revolution enabler industry, the prime source of our national wealth and modern living standards, in order to (attempt to) shave one hundredth of a degree of global temperatures by 2100? No, I didn’t think so. What is ridiculous today, is guaranteed to be accepted policy the day after tomorrow.
Who is attacking farming? Perhaps rephrasing the question, who isn’t attacking farming?
First, there is the Dutch Government, bowing low before EU emissions targets. They are doing their bit, despite the magnificent efforts of the protesters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335287
Then we have Bill Gates and the private equity controlling class are literally buying the farm. Robin Monotti links the Dutch Government’s actions to those of Gates:
Yesterday [the Dutch farmers] even set fire to a supermarket called Picnic, it is an online supermarket that specializes in meatless proteins. And imagine this, the owner of that market, Michiel Muller, is the brother of the husband of the Minister of Agriculture, the same one who practically banned farmers from animal husbandry, i.e. meat production. By the way, both come from the richest Dutch families and are members of the "elite".
And imagine this coincidence, the biggest investor in that market chain is Bill Gates, who invested an incredible 600 million dollars. The same Bill Gates who has been buying land in America for two years and who is today the largest owner of agricultural land in America. So you understand how everything is connected, the gang is networked like a mafia, and it is obvious that they have been planning this for a long time.
Charlie Kirk has also been talking about Gates’ food push:
Charlie Kirk believes Bill Gates and China are collaborating to buy up American farming land and take control of the country’s food supply.
During his Friday radio show, Kirk laid out his theory for the land grab taking place in the United States. “North Dakota has some of the most amazing patriots on the planet, but why is North Dakota allowing themselves to be taken over by the World Economic Forum and by the Chinese communist party?”
He added, “The Chinese are buying up farmland all across America. Do you know that the Chinese own 100 million acres of farmland? Do you know that, that according to sources in Texas, the Chinese own dozens of square miles of farmland, and they don’t allow anyone to come in.”
“Gates is the single largest owner of farmland in the United States. Do you know that Bill Gates owns 270,000 acres of farmland? Now why would Bill Gates do that?”
The leftist Kiwis want to tax cows that let off. The Conversation has a piece on it:
New Zealand, where agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, is proposing a tax on cow burps. The reason seems simple enough: Cows release methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and New Zealand has a goal of reaching net-zero emissions by midcentury.
Not to be outdone by the Dutch, the Irish have another angle. No Irish jokes here, please.
Ireland’s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain.
The Irish government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets. It's madness.
Madness, yes. But more evil than madness, I think. This push is global and demonic. It is only a matter of time before the evil duo in in Canberra (one starts with “A”, the other “B”) start pondering how we kill off farming here.
Andre Bolt sniffs trouble ahead:
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “farmers will be next” in Labor’s “global warming crusade” after Chris Bowen announced a scheme over Twitter to get farmers to cut methane.
“Today he was tweeting how he had put money into a scheme to get farmers to cut methane,” he said.
“What’s that going to cost and will that make any difference at all to the climate?”
Then we have the climate zealots. According to the journal Science:
Many climate advocates say the most cost-effective way to help the climate through agriculture is simply to farm less land and raise less livestock.
So, then we can all eat synthetic food. And other things. Here is Monotti again, linking Gates to eating insects:
Bill Gates actively advocates that we should eat artificial food, synthetic beef and – insects! Their plan is to feed us (whom they consider their livestock) insects. As crazy as it sounds, it's true and they've been preparing us for it for years. Did you see Angelina Jolie frying and eating tarantulas, worms and grasshoppers with her children on BBC television?
And have you seen Nicole Kidman promoting insects and eating them with gusto in front of the cameras?
Finally, we have “rewilding”. Here is a British angle, from March 2020:
War of the wild: How trendy metropolitan eco-zealots with close ties to Boris Johnson are set on driving out traditional farming and 'rewilding' the land.
So, we tax farmers out of existence and if that doesn’t work, we buy (or confiscate) their productive land. Or simply make them kill their cows.
In his latest, sobering article in The Australian, Paul Kelly noted, in the context of exploring Australia’s very shabby recent record on productivity – and, yes, Labor wants to get rid of the Productivity Commission – that 90 per cent of our economy is made up of service industries. 90 per cent. That is food for thought, right there. Much of that 90 per cent is made up of what the late David Graeber called “bullshit jobs” (in his 2018 book of the same name).
He argues that there are millions of people across the world — clerical workers, administrators, consultants, telemarketers, corporate lawyers, service personnel, and many others — who are toiling away in meaningless, unnecessary jobs, and they know it.
Graeber stated:
Corporate lawyers. Most corporate lawyers secretly believe that if there were no longer any corporate lawyers, the world would probably be a better place. The same is true of public relations consultants, telemarketers, brand managers, and countless administrative specialists who are paid to sit around, answer phones, and pretend to be useful.
A lot of bullshit jobs are just manufactured middle-management positions with no real utility in the world, but they exist anyway in order to justify the careers of the people performing them. But if they went away tomorrow, it would make no difference at all.
And that’s how you know a job is bullshit: If we suddenly eliminated teachers or garbage collectors or construction workers or law enforcement or whatever, it would really matter. We’d notice the absence. But if bullshit jobs go away, we’re no worse off.
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-david-graeber-occupy-wall-street-karl-marx
The noticeable thing about these “professions”? There aren’t too many of them in the mining, manufacturing and farm sectors.
But, aside from the issue of having so few industries that are even capable of improving productivity (defined as output per unit of labour), what is alarming is that the remaining 10 per cent, mostly mining and agriculture – given how little manufacturing we do – are now both under vicious attack from the very same PGGWC class that, a few short years ago, was defending farming against coal seam gas.
This signals just how quickly we have rushed to the economic cliff with the apparently deliberate intention of jumping off.
I imagine that, when we have destroyed mining and agriculture, apart from eating insects, we will be experiencing the one hundred per cent service economy, with all of the trimmings. We will not only on nothing (as per the World Economic Forum) but we will also make nothing. We will have literally no means of improving productivity, which is the only way to improve living standards. But then again, improving living standards is not high on the agenda of those who now command us. As the (non-electric) cars become illegal, as mining companies move offshore – as Gina Rinehart suggests will happen – as our farmers start re-purposing their lives, and as we shrivel away economically, there is literally only one ay of maintaining any semblance of an economy. That would be – you guessed it – ever more immigrants! Just as we are doing now. Over a million are coming our way in the next two years. Policymakers and big business loves migrants. For government, a means of generating economic activity, albeit in a Ponzi scheme may. For business, cheap labour and ready-made customers for all those service sectors.
With the added bonus of harvesting more Labor votes and rubbing the noses of the deplorables in their on racism and xenophobia. Win-win.
Paul Collits
4 June 2023
'New Zealand, where agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, is proposing a tax on cow burps.'
Aha! NOW we know why Jacinda resigned!
From my military days as an OR (other rank) in a certain overseas adventure (which we lost) I remember a pertinent popular saying among my fellow ORs - Bullshit baffles brains - referring to the military system, The Green Machine.
It looks like the Green Machine has now migrated into the civilian apparatus. One can only hope that this latter day green machine loses too.