If 40,000 Canadian farmers were protesting drastic new green measures, the leaders would probably be arrested and their tractors seized
I am referring to the huge and continuous protest against the Dutch government. For some weeks now upwards of 40,000 farmers have been on their tractors and in their trucks crowding highways and snarling traffic in a mass protest against a green edict that would force them to halve emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 2030. Among the minor consequences of this wand-wave from on high is that the Dutch would lose about 30 per cent of their livestock numbers.
I am far from alone in noting the deliberate underplay of this story. I cite and endorse the entirety of thisof Spiked: “There has been some reportage outside of the Netherlands, of course. But it has been strikingly muted. And it isn’t hard to see why. This is a people’s revolt against eco-tyranny, against the modern elite’s determination to slash ‘harmful’ emissions with little regard for the consequences such action will have for working people and poor people.
Disabuse yourselves of the idea that Green is painless. Europe these days is one big anxious map proving the contrary.
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