The Greens' New Target

Green governments are cracking down on chemical fertilizer.
The result? Hunger.
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In Sri Lanka people rioted when the country slipped into extreme poverty.
Why did it happen?
Here’s one big reason: the government banned chemical fertilizer.
Environmental activists say nitrogen fertilizers shouldn’t be used, and Sri Lanka’s president listened.
As a result, farms produced much less food, and food prices have risen 80%.
Have the “green” activists learned from this? No.
They continue to push for a chemical free world.
“It’s out of control” says environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, “completely unnecessary.”
In the video above, he explains how this green dogma would lead to mass starvation.

[@SJM6791]

I couldn’t help but notice that the people pushing these insane energy policies don’t have to suffer the consequences of their policies. They continue to own multiple big homes, fleets of cars, yacht(s) and fly in private jets. Their lives are not interfered with at all. It’s only the little people that have their lives destroyed.

[@drkreuzer670]

Tax the rich?

[@Aaron-or6ov]

Perfectly said my friend. When they have those meetings every year ( sorry forgot what it’s called) there are reported over 700 private air planes there lol. And they preach to you and I about climate. What a joke!

[@GeorgeSemel]

Yep! Funny how that works. Famine is coming and it's a very ugly thing. The Green Movement or whatever you want to call it is part of it. But the current Russo- Ukrainian war is pushing the world to a famine. Both are major producers of Wheat and Fertilizer. What happened in Sri Lanka is ugly but it's nothing compared to what is coming.

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

Honestly the problem is not nitrogen based fertilizers it's the fact that we don't need to be using those fertilizers to begin with if we didn't have government subsidized crops where we have these welfare crops where we are growing a singular crop on a field then we wouldn't have as many of these problems but the problem is it's all about making money instead of actually feeding people it's all about the bottom line instead of caring about the land and everything else you can use biochar and natural organic material all of your poop instead of flushing it down the toilet make fertilizer with it use your pee and make fertilizer ultimately the problem is we have forgotten how to actually grow props if we use biochar it is like a coral reef for the ground you are giving places for life to live inside of the Char which gets bio organically activated and the life can live inside of it literally like a coral reef increasing crop yields by more than 50% this would give you more than enough abundance to not need to use fertilizers or grow mono crops we should not be growing things that we have to plant every year either we should have perennial plants fruit trees growing fruit every single year we should have things that produce annually without needing to be seeded and fertilized. You have no idea what you're talking about on this subject I can guarantee you that. You sound like a corporate sellout piece of s*** who wants to go to war with Ukraine because that's where all of our fertilizers are at that's where all the important parts of the trifecta of fertilizer is act and you're just touting the same bs as everyone else without actually knowing anything about how to produce crops you've never grown a single crop in your entire life! We're talking about manure we have so much s*** we flush it down the toilet every day and we are not putting it back onto our land we have enough s*** from humans to make enough manure to make as many crops as we need and with biochar to activate and for that to live inside of the biochar like a coral reef like I said it will increase your crop yields more than 50% creating artificial abundance you are just pushing the same corporate mindset of making profits for the bottom line by making people have to have these fertilizers and making them think that there's no other way when you're completely wrong and a total fool!!!

[@chaserohwedder8852]

I don’t see how destroying to entire system could possibly preserve the ability for the rich to not eventually be effected in some way. If the American dollar collapses as the worlds fiat currency will they even be “rich” anymore? It’s really doesn’t make any sense.

[@abishekdevendra]

As a native Sri Lankan, I thank you for posting this video and raising awareness of our situation. Please learn from us. Don't listen to those delusional leftists and their so-called "Green Dogma".

[@dianaahuche880]

Ok, copied!

[@stevdaughtr6098]

Nobody is listening to them they are forcing it without care about the people that are dying. We have crazy people buying up all the land in the United States and pretending that we should eat bugs

[@geemcgraff8281]

begone demon

[@redline1916]

@@geemcgraff8281 you're the demon here

[@jesterprivilege]

@@geemcgraff8281 in order to go full organic, lots of people have to die, or learn how to grow organic food.

[@PoorKidOne]

He nailed it at the end when he said the modern technology like fertilizer makes everyone’s life better. Precisely the reason they’re doing away with it.

[@Barskor1]

We can use the modern technology of hydrothermal carbonization and get better fertilizer and deal with every cities dirty secret, hint Flush...

[@bweaver760]

You got it, the rich elites want the poorest gone and fast! This is why they are minimizing the production of needed farming aids! They want to move forward in their ways of depopulation.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

People won’t realise it until it’s too late

[@newhampshirelifestyle4233]

Exactly! The left wants to promote and spread misery and suffering.

[@dindog22]

they want us dead

[@amatomic257]

Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”

[@alejandrofallas9734]

California is the perfect example of "green energy" they want to replace gasoline powered vehicles by electric vehicles and now they say don't charge your electric vehicle... Because power plants are overloaded🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@Cat10980]

The green lobby are just another mentally ill section of our crumbling society. Green is pointless, we must ensure security of energy supply and to do that we must return to gas, oil, coal and nuclear. Renewables are a folly we can’t afford. Plus the Lithium leach fields created for these wonderful electric cars are a bigger threat to the environment and wildlife than CO2 has ever, or will ever, be.

[@count69]

People literally, and I use the word literally literally, think that electric cars are powered by magic. When you explain to them that they use the same electricity that powers the grid they disconnect, doing that shark dead eye rolling thing as they try to recall the relevant part of the script.

[@Aaron-or6ov]

I live in California and in the valley and they tell us this every year.

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

Honestly the problem is not nitrogen based fertilizers it's the fact that we don't need to be using those fertilizers to begin with if we didn't have government subsidized crops where we have these welfare crops where we are growing a singular crop on a field then we wouldn't have as many of these problems but the problem is it's all about making money instead of actually feeding people it's all about the bottom line instead of caring about the land and everything else you can use biochar and natural organic material all of your poop instead of flushing it down the toilet make fertilizer with it use your pee and make fertilizer ultimately the problem is we have forgotten how to actually grow props if we use biochar it is like a coral reef for the ground you are giving places for life to live inside of the Char which gets bio organically activated and the life can live inside of it literally like a coral reef increasing crop yields by more than 50% this would give you more than enough abundance to not need to use fertilizers or grow mono crops we should not be growing things that we have to plant every year either we should have perennial plants fruit trees growing fruit every single year we should have things that produce annually without needing to be seeded and fertilized. You have no idea what you're talking about on this subject I can guarantee you that. You sound like a corporate sellout piece of s*** who wants to go to war with Ukraine because that's where all of our fertilizers are at that's where all the important parts of the trifecta of fertilizer is act and you're just touting the same bs as everyone else without actually knowing anything about how to produce crops you've never grown a single crop in your entire life! We're talking about manure we have so much s*** we flush it down the toilet every day and we are not putting it back onto our land we have enough s*** from humans to make enough manure to make as many crops as we need and with biochar to activate and for that to live inside of the biochar like a coral reef like I said it will increase your crop yields more than 50% creating artificial abundance you are just pushing the same corporate mindset of making profits for the bottom line by making people have to have these fertilizers and making them think that there's no other way when you're completely wrong and a total fool!!!! Oh by the way most Tesla owners are not total f****** idiots like the rest of the population and guess what when they get their Tesla they get solar installed on their house as well so they don't have to pay for electricity to charge their vehicle you moron!

[@frankie5373]

our electric grid is old and outdated, like everything else.

[@Stevarooni]

Go Green _and_ Go Hungry, or reject the Great Reset.

[@residentgrey]

that is not going green. More like gangreen. The WEFtards are wrecking what it means to go green by design.

[@FBISHOJI]

Only ends in Hot Led *bang bang*

[@cornpop7805]

John has always been the guy getting to the heart of the issues. If his leanings were left, he would be a rock star among the left; but, because he lands on the side of real facts, reason, and ethics, he hasn't been demonized, but nearly forgotten.

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

He did lean left at some point, which got him several Emmy awards

[@libearl828]

Now he is bought by the liars and bankers

[@cornpop7805]

@@libearl828 I don't believe he's been bought.

[@libearl828]

@@cornpop7805 bought and sold Now a shill for his owners

[@cornpop7805]

@Robert Ferguson I'm open to hear why you think so.

[@pumitriii6160]

Wow. Amazing that I had no idea the Sri Lanka protests were about fertilizer. All I've heard is ppl were upset about a declining economy because of covid...

[@TheSimba86]

What makes me angry is the rich and powerful keep going on and on about needing to go green and save the earth while they live in massive mansions that cost a fortune to heat and cool and they use their private jets like cars, none of them are interested in giving anything up to save the planet they expect all the poor to do without so they can still live like kings

[@agisler87]

Exactly. Until they change I will not take the climate "crisis" seriously.

[@derspeed5796]

Exactly! Anyone who thinks a politician cares about their well-being, is sadly mistaken.

[@ShelbyMagnolia]

Amen

[@dianaahuche880]

@@derspeed5796 Unfortunately, it's true.

[@dianaahuche880]

@@agisler87 Do your part and you will blessed for it.

[@CommentFrom]

Weird how we keep seeing story after story about places forcing green 'initiatives' and suddenly having problems

[@johngenericlastname9781]

All by design

[@ericheick7044]

All the people pushing this agenda seem very well fed

[@ARod-br2ui]

It’s clearly an orchestrated agenda. And with a little research, one can see the obvious. This is something that these global elites have been planning for years.

[@robertjohnston8690]

@@ericheick7044 And they fly around in privet jets telling the people to go greener.

[@Apice.]

This is what happens when we start noticing patterns. Everything slots into place, and we realize what is actually going on

[@OH8STN]

I was just a teenager when I used to watch you on TV. A lifetime later, I find you again. Well done! Keep doing what you're doing.

[@Gun_Molester]

I took a road trip across the USA...there is PLENTY and i mean A SHIT TON of open land we can use for cattle grazing...no need to worry about how much land a cow needs

[@floridamankyle5461]

I love it when they show 100% clean steam coming out of a Nuclear Plant Steam Turbine exhaust like it's a bad thing, that is when I saw the "green" movement as total BS, show the acid rain from Lithium mines.

[@bradhaines3142]

not just nuke plant, but every time they show 'pollution' from power plants, they aim straight for the cooling towers. basically distilled water coming out as a cloud, they call that toxic pollution.

[@bradhaines3142]

@@WildKard123 smoke stacks are the exhaust, the actually bad stuff comes out of those. the cooling towers are the big ones with the skinny middle. very few plants dont have cooling towers, theres a lot of waste heat they need to dump somewhere and its not legal to dump it straight into a river or ocean because the temperature difference would kill everything down stream for miles.

[@slickstrings]

@@bradhaines3142 depends. Ive worked on many coal power stations and its all about location. Cooling towers can be the big curvy hyperbolic ones or lower, flat crossflow ones facing side on to the prevailing winds. They usually have big fans on top. Others that are located next to a large water source like the ocean or big lakes can use heat exchangers. They still use demineralised water for the boiler and usually have dams of plashett or 'make up' water to top the system up. Environmental regulations will determin how much temp delta they can cause in the outlet waterway. We usually find large fish congregating at the end of the outlet channels. They seem to love it, but there can be problems with sea life getting drawn into the channel and stuck at the filter screens if solutions arent made.

[@richavic4520]

The steam is atmospheric condensation. Heating water to turn turbines is a closed system, much like boilers that produce steam used to heat radiators in some houses.

[@richavic4520]

@@slickstrings at the nuke plant in Kansas, gizzard shad were clogging the inlets. The solution was to stock predator fish. The cooling lake was opened to the public ten or so years later, limited to reservation, certain areas and daylight hours. A coal fired plant maybe fifty miles east is notorious for the big stripers that hang out near the outlet. This space at the nuke is restricted, no access. I believe that the daylight hours for the nuke is to quell rumors of glowing fish.

[@heavyd777]

Frankly, I am sick and tired of being lectured at by these morally inferior privileged elitists. Joe Biden, John Kerry, AOC, Gretta....the list goes on and on.

[@harmgregory4560]

you don't like being told you're wrong. Not surprising, but there are smart people who have a pretty good idea that the way we're going NOW isn't all that promising.

[@o9rgeronimo979]

Cow farts are the problem 🙄, many forest fires and volcanos and natural gas leaks. Man will not put a dent in the environment. One small forest fire 50000 acres , puts more carbon in the air on one day (24 hr period) than New York and Los Angeles in one month combined. And John Kerry and al gore go to Miami and say the ocean is rising. Bc the rain water takes awhile to drain bc Miami is asphalt jungle. Yet Obama and sanders Kerry and gore purchased ocean front property 🤔

[@harmgregory4560]

@@o9rgeronimo979 is misinformed

[@harmgregory4560]

@'HeavyD' Feel bad because they're right? Because they are.

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

@@harmgregory4560 so what you're saying is you can't even name one?

[@Strange84]

Refuse resist!!

[@tpep1693]

You got that right, go hungry, go broke, go everything you don't want! Wake UP people! WAKE UP!

[@Jubeidono2012]

AOC: We don't need farms. I buy my fruits and vegetables at the grocery store.

[@xxxxxxxxxx6903]

That would've been hilarious if it wasn't so close to reality 😂

[@Tricia-yf1ld]

😂😂😂

[@joedirte716]

I eat her fish every night

[@theherrdark4834]

It is funny how the ones making these decisions are city dwellers, not farmers who know nature personally and know how to work with her rules.

[@ChestyPullerFan]

“But third-party decision making by surrogates for “society” offers no a priori reason to expect a closer approximation to omniscience. On the contrary, such surrogates not only lack the detailed and direct knowledge of the innumerable circumstances surrounding each of the millions of individuals whose decisions they are preempting, they lack the incentives of direct gain and loss from being right or wrong, and they have every incentive to persist in mistaken policies (from which they suffer little), rather than admit to being wrong (from which they could suffer much).” ― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

[@residentgrey]

many farmers don't know that nature either.

[@rays7437]

Farmers don't know jack sh*t about working with nature. They only know cheap poison chemical shortcuts.

[@oliveoil7642]

@@residentgrey many farmers have been working the land for generations and while there is always something new to learn and tweak they most definitely know more than the politicians or urban dwellers.

[@residentgrey]

@@oliveoil7642 knowing more than overpaid fools and ignorant people should not count for much. The ones you defend have been mismanaging the land hardcore since the "Green Revolution" and certainly before that too. Dust Bowl much? Some have gotten better but most are forced to do things harmfully due to corporate pressure and government diktat.

[@johndsmith-gv8zh]

Insanity, doing the same thing over again and expecting a different outcome 🤦‍♂️🤬🤬

[@LetsProblemSolve]

Couple months ago on pinterest I found a few pins from either ww1 or ww2 that said that it was every Americans patriotic duty to have two chickens per family member. Now you have to beg for permission to have them at all.

[@advancedomega]

I read it in other video's comment section: "Green" actually means "The pollution is somewhere else."

[@gps9715]

"Green for me, not for thee" lol

[@KaiserS0ZE]

YOU are the carbon they aim to reduce. Never forget that.

[@californiacountry209]

It means billions for politicians and billion dollar companies that have invested in the technology. That and China. China is going to get so rich developing the batteries and components needed for this new tech

[@donf3877]

Kommieforia is so proud about closing down power plants, and how much pollution they are preventing. Of course, they are simply getting the power from oil and natural gas and COAL fired plants in surrounding states. So yes... "The pollution is somewhere else" is 100% accurate.

[@0011peace]

@@KaiserS0ZE well if we eliminate 2/3 of the population there would be less strain on the enviorment

[@MegaTeeruk]

Not to mention environmentalist are trying to get rid of cattle farming so there goes that manure as well. I am actually an organic farmer and can tell you these environmentalist are insane if they think the world can go fully organic. If you are an organic farmer your number 1 supplier of nitrogen is composted manure and blood meal. Our number one supplier of phosphorus is bone meal. The only way could scale that globally would be a massive uptick in animal harvesting to get the blood and bone needed but they are trying to do away with meat processing. Their ideas are entirely inconsistent with each other.

[@howardsmith9342]

There is another source of blood and bone meal for fertilizer...dead humans. Of which there may be millions soon, if these ecofascists get their way.

[@richardthompson6366]

Logic has left the conversation.

[@okjay755]

Kudos on the farming so no disrespect on that. But since you were the the only commentator (that I'm aware of) that mentioned meat production so far, I wanted to chime in on that - It's true, if we stopped eating meat at every damn meal in Western cultures, we wouldn't be using about 73% of all the soybean and corn production to feed cattle. *Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world's supply of calories!* So anyone bitching about plastic straws, or what type of fertilizer is being used is grossly misguided, imho. The single biggest threat to the environment is meat production. The only thing close in scope is transportation, but that at least is a necessity. Whereas bringing animals into production just to torture and kill for food is a luxury.

[@residentgrey]

now speak of the rest of these "ideas"...you only see the worst instead of the best. Keep looking.

[@genghiskhan5701]

@@okjay755 Telling Americans that they need to stop eating barbaqeues is the equivalent of a death sentence. We still need protein to have a healthy body since humans originally ate more meat than plants hence meat is equally necessary. Your proposal will create billions of unhealthy humans who are not recieving necessary nutrition. People forget that farmer societies were far less healthier than their nomand or hunter gatherer counterparts, as indicated on how the increased in tooth decay was used to indentify which cultures became agricultural. The only advantage of grains is that its more quantity over quality. Heck, most Americans became fatter after the US government recommended more grain intakes.

[@ralphpeiris5996]

Hey John, I am from Sri Lanka. Thank you for your accurate reporting. Srilanka is struggling. Unfortunately the government is corrupt which does not help the people.

[@annahardina1831]

Here in Vermont, ALL gas stations owned or operated by India were not forced to install The 5 million dollar New Regulation ground Gas tanks The LOCAL gas station OWNERS had to put in Vermont.. Many Local Gas Stations and convenient Stores went bankrupt while India makes billions regulation Free. Biggest scam against the local owners.. AOC used The Green New 🆕 deal scam to send billions to a foreign country.. This is how they control Gas prices from within the country.. So many Vermont small business owners lost their Gas Stations from Regulations. While India has NEVER followed any Regulations. American Small business owners deserve answers.

[@jonknox4621]

We weren't in harmony with nature for thousands of years we were at its mercy.

[@walterfechter8080]

Those who know much about agriculture become farmers. Those who know nothing about agriculture become environmentalist purists. Farmers in Netherlands and elsewhere, we are with you. -- A retired farmer.

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

Those who cover our food supply in toxic chemicals and poison our water will ultimately cause humans to go extinct. The cancer and hormonal disorders have already started.

[@xyzaero9656]

Farmers, forestry and hunters killed nature over the past 200 years. They are the once who know the least about anything.

[@aslamibnshiraj1814]

Thanks sir, At the end of the day we farmers have to make sure our family & friends are food sufficient. At the time of worst case scenario, nothing is more important than food we grow. Soon they will come after our food in the name of moral distribution. Keep guns with you, keep safe. ----- A farmer from Bangladesh.

[@walterfechter8080]

@@aslamibnshiraj1814 -- Many thanks, Aslam. Love your family and friends, appreciate the land, stay free. -- W

[@samuelshin593]

Liberals so stupid they don't understand air is made of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% Hydrogen with 0.05% CO2. To top that off, 99.999999999% of 0.05% of CO2 comes from microorganisms. Every square inch of Earth is microorganisms. Why do you put food inside freezers? Cold temperatures prevent bacterial growth. Same thing with Earth. Temperatures go down, bacterial growth goes down than CO2 goes down and vice versa. Look at any global temperature graph of Earth in billions of years. Temperature always had cyclical change. Always!!. Liberals soo stupid they don't understand what the sun is, which is a fusion reaction of two different isotopes of hydrogen tritium and deuterium overcoming nuclear bonds with gravity, which is extremely inefficient and causes temperature to change.

[@marcusmaddenov2451]

What nonsense 78 percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen!

[@Xx_Eric_was_Here_xX]

the pollution comes from the method of extracting nitrogen from the atmosphere, which is how the majority of synthetic nitrogen-based fertilizers are produced, typically formulated from the industrial production of ammonia.

[@san4os94]

.7% of carbon is enough to make steel from iron. i am no expert in chemistry, but this little fact alone made me change perspective on how significant little changes can be in chemistry.

[@marcusmaddenov2451]

@@Xx_Eric_was_Here_xX What pollution is that Eric? 😳

[@Xx_Eric_was_Here_xX]

​@@marcusmaddenov2451 nitrous oxide is emitted from the reaction, and nitrates frequently leak into ground water.

[@judyplatte3254]

Oh boy do we need this truth out and we need it out now

[@camoss3724]

It's difficult to be environmentally conscious when you don't have enough to eat.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

We haven’t “lived in harmony” with nature. It’s been a tooth and nail fight to endure the elements and the wildlife. People today should be thankful everyday they don’t have to worry about food, attacks from animals, and even natural disasters as much as we used to.

[@boastartstudios4325]

You haven't, but many have and do. Except currently in Brazil they are being slaughtered. ( indigenous tribes) And around the world in 1st world countries and 3rd world countries any indigenous are pushed to the brink.

[@thorlin3826]

@@boastartstudios4325 We are all indigenous people, we didn't come from space. We are all part of nature. Using your thought process, thinking indigs are a different species, any species in nature that doesn't adapt and evolve becomes extinct, doesn't it? We are all part of nature even in the heart of a city.

[@brianensign7638]

Thank you for saying this. I like nature just as much as the next guy, but this “harmony” stuff is just baloney. There’s no “harmony” when you’re surrounded by things that want to kill and eat you, and you have to do the same to them before you starve to death. I would love to see any one of those educated elites preaching “harmony with nature” go out in the bush and actually try to live it. Lacking the capacity to control many aspects of your environment is not “harmony.” It’s poverty.

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

Boast is right, we should all lead severely unproductive subsistence lives for the sake of the sun god.

[@themadfarmer5207]

Nobody mentioning the elephant in the room. World overly populated. Putting pressure on water, food, environment, housing, health. In 50 years more Double the pressure, unless something, something comes to reduce numbers

[@HaIsKuL]

It’s sad and tiresome to see people starving and angry not knowing the reasons for their problems are the exact measures they are told to support.

[@jasondorsey7110]

And the unions tell workers to vote for the democrats selling out their jobs

[@eabe_7397]

Ehhh... The left wants you to support not having children too. So there is no surprise there. They are very genocidally. They just do it in a way most people don't notice. That's why they talk about the world getting over populated and the climate crises. That is based off a theory (not proven fact!!!). A theory where many of the so called assumptions about it; have already been proven wrong time and time again. But the left don't listen to real scientist. They are only interested in making genocide sound like a good thing. While saying they follow the science. But have no real scientist writing their research papers. Many of those politicians have been banned from the science they claim the understand. Banned for what? For writing lies and publishing false studies that never happened. To achieve their political motives.

[@deejayimm]

Government is always the problem masquerading as the solution, even here in America people support government "solutions" to problems they caused.

[@drugilbert2447]

Corruption is the age old problem.

[@markburk4590]

And voted for.

[@jessebbedwell]

When did humans live in harmony with nature? We've always been attempting to subdue it, just to survive.

[@ronaldengels6168]

You are right it is totally insane our world of to-day! Regards.

[@ben_1]

"For most of our history humans lived in harmony with nature" Yes, for most of our history humans also died of a simple cold or starved to death because a single parasite got to a field. But it's all the bad, evil chemicals.

[@GameAholicsVideo]

The mantra "For most of our history humans lived in harmony with nature" is also a total lie. The Indian Pueblo ruins in the Southwest are surrounded by garbage dumps. Even human city in all of history has produced garbage that has a negative environmental impact. Yes, we should learn to reduce that impact and reduce our usage of resources. But let's stop pretending that our ancestors who lived in poverty had the ability to correct their environment. It's our wealth that gives us the ability to do so.

[@lizh7777]

I'm pretty sure what they mean by "harmony with nature" is "humans died more because of nature and that's a good thing."

[@chuckaddison5134]

I think that for most of human history our 'harmony' has been to escape the effects of 'nature'.. we invented weapons to hunt food, and repell those animals that hunted us. We learned to preserve food to ameliorate the effects of failed crops or other devastating threats. We invented medicine to prevent the deaths from a splinter, cut or a common cold. Our history has not been the acceptance of the inevitable consequences of 'living in harmony with nature' , but the neverending desire to overcome the inevitable.

[@deniseaileen5955]

Yes, because they think there are too many people. Actually, there aren't too many of us.

[@deniseaileen5955]

Look at China. We certainly don't want the government telling us how many kids we should have.

[@LibertarianGamer-ff5tg]

Green governments have never been concerned with protecting the environment. Controlling resources was the main goal.

[@NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean]

All part of the plan … “We’ll own nothing and be happy!”

[@franknichols5423]

Which leads to their ultimate goal of totalitarian population control.

[@residentgrey]

those are not green governments then...

[@boastartstudios4325]

Why don't you back that claim up?

[@boastartstudios4325]

@@NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean that is ridiculous.

[@aaroncanfield76]

the same plan will be used against those people fighting for it.

[@thomasdissell9990]

Insanity isn't the only word to describe it.. Treason fits.

[@plmn93]

I admit I haven't followed Sri Lanka's collapse all that closely, but this is the first I've heard it was caused by a fertilizer ban. Thanks John for getting these stories out there, you are doing very important work.

[@gps9715]

There's a youtube channel called casual scholar that goes into detail about what happened, but it is the fertilizer ban at the bottom of it. That channel has all kinds of great mini documentaries about countries doing stupid things that end up collapsing the country. It's a great channel to point anyone to that claims these insane policies are going to work. A global history of "elites" pushing stupid ideas and devastating their populations.

[@fajaradi1223]

Fertilizer ban is just one of the many cause. Some say it's just throwing more fuel in to an already burning fire. Their former president build some unnecessary mega projects, which drain the country budget. Then the pandemic break, and here comes the green policies.

[@KaiserS0ZE]

YOU are the carbon they aim to reduce. Never forget that.

[@gps9715]

@@KaiserS0ZE Seeing everything that is going on (which is not an easy task in and of itself with all the censorship shenanigans going on) your conclusion is the only sensible one to come to.

[@johnwong5317]

The Green Dogma and Chinese took advantage it with import fertilizer which result into toxic fertilizer. Quite frankly, the pushing for fertilizer banned got this bad because China's government wants it with theirs export to cash in on the movement as well.

[@LucifersDeathSquad]

This is the perfect example of slow cooking the frog vs throwing it right in the fire.

[@rayboudreault1452]

Farmers know what they are doing, bureaucrats should mind their own buisness.

[@Choose_Peace]

Thank you for this video. May many see this and be educated 🙏.

[@adventuresofaliftime4989]

As a farmer I am curious how they plan on powering all the ag equipment needed to produce the food. These people pushing these policies don't realize how much diesel is burned to power just one tractor. They have no idea how much electricity it would take just to power a combine.

[@thegeneralist7527]

And how much further that tractor will have to drive, and the extra maintenance. This will destroy agriculture, just like the collectivization of farms. Millions upon million of people will die and suffer.

[@jimfarmer7811]

Also it would cost a $ trillion to extend high power electric lines to every farm.

[@thegeneralist7527]

@@jimfarmer7811 Good point. If it made good economic sense farmers would be doing it already. People have no idea how a free market works.

[@staceyforehand9513]

I think these leaders do know but want disaster.

[@adventuresofaliftime4989]

@@staceyforehand9513 it does seem that way as a small trucking business owner I know they are deliberately for ING people out of business. Which begs the question why when we have a so called shortage.

[@perfectplayingplaids]

Take this as a reminder: FARMERS- not politicians- form the basis of civilization.

[@steveale0711]

We have a small produce farm. We use a mix of organic and other fertilization methods. We eat and we sell. Many are not so fortunate, I fear we will be forced to defend ourselves at some point in the future.

[@ILovePancakes24]

Next time they should've asked for insurance in case the project there fails.

[@zg-it]

These are some of the worst people alive. Hurting people today to solve imaginary problems based off of models created by people who have the incentive to manipulate their findings to please the people they are making them for.

[@kateruterbories2692]

Would you say it's satanic? Hmmmm.....have people been onto something?

[@scottv8410]

well said.

[@oldsguy354]

Here's their logic, In order to save you from poverty and starvation in the future, we are going to push you into poverty and starvation now. Then somehow it blows their mind that we resist their "help",

[@joannleichliter4308]

Bingo!

[@joannleichliter4308]

The one thing I had not heard before about the Dutch farmers' protest was that they had already reduced nitrogen pollution by 70%. That was an eye opener and explained why this new reduction policy is unsustainable. If you hadn't already figured out that those in power want you to be poor, dark, cold and hungry--and then just die off--you should be able to figure it out now.

[@nancybaumgartner6774]

Perfect comment

[@yurichtube1162]

They want it extra reduced by 30% now. Meaning, they want them all gone. We must protest.

[@nancybaumgartner6774]

@@yurichtube1162 and they want the most competent, productive , uncontrollable people gone .

[@TradMommy]

It’s all part of King Charles III’s liberal world order being implemented by WEF & their minions. Prince Chucky & Klaus came up w this long ago & love that they can finally unveil. Sickening. God STOP the King!

[@ryang2573]

@@nancybaumgartner6774 I've heard a theory that people in the real estate/financial class are so bats**t crazy and short sighted that they want all the agricultural land for "development". I suppose they think that they can just outsource farming to the third world like they did with manufacturing and everything will still work out great (for them).

[@isaian2e]

I remember the media painted the Sri Lanka protests as citizens standing up for freedom, but never mentioned the farming/fertilizer crisis that triggered this.

[@joannebutzerin6448]

Thank you for providing such a crystal clear message. I don't think the leftists kooks will listen. They never do. But I certainly appreciate having a video like this to watch and share.

[@ericheckenkamp6091]

I was in 3rd grade, and it was 1984, and our teacher scared the hell out of our class by telling us the ice caps were going to melt, and that NYC would be underwater by the year 2000. She had pamphlets for us to read, and it all looked very scientific and well researched to me...as a kid. Not only was NYC in trouble, but the Midwest, where I lived was going to be a desert wasteland, like Mad Max! I was terrified for the rest of the day, and for a long time after that. The upside was that it did make me into a conservationist, and environmentalist. The downside (for them) is that I don't proclaim a belief until I have really researched it, and in researching my environmental beliefs I have come to the conclusion that Climate Change activists are not only completely ignorant, they're actually funneling money away from actual solutions to actual environmental problems.

[@DennistheMenace2011]

You are absolutely correct. All these Climate Change head honchos have serious money in the game and will do anything they can to make things happen in their favor.

[@cynthomsen9133]

share the research

[@little1942]

A few years earlier than that (in 79) while in fourth grade, I was leaning about the coming ice that was going to cause massive food shortages, starving millions of people to death. Same cause, same solutions.

[@kimmer6]

An Earth Sciences professor at my California University INSISTED in 1976 that the planet would no longer have fresh water by 1986. So much for environmental ''experts''.

[@Winterascent]

I love how people think that 6 billion people dying is not a goal of these fertilizer bans.

[@MOstix13]

Let these politicians do without.

[@xebec1958]

Pure nature for us not for the government their life style will not change.

[@rodneykent8023]

The people screaming "we have to get to 100% renewable energy" have invested into "green energy" companies and expect to make a fortune. They don't really gaf about the environment.

[@visearms5774]

you mean people like Al Gore and his 300 million dollar net worth and multiple mansions?

[@donf3877]

If they did... there would not have been over 900 two to four engine private jets, and an untold number of super yachts, used to transport these idiots to the last global climate meeting. It could have been on Zoom... but they wouldn't have had all those photo-ops. Gore's "carbon footprint" they love to talk about, is that of a medium size city. And, after Obama screamed for years about the "rising sea level"... he goes out and spends over ten million dollars each, on two ocean front mansions. It is ALL about power and control and money... nothing more.

[@pabo-qv3nx]

Very True

[@met9072]

No they really don't care about the environment. Wonder what the carbon footprint is for the Ukraine war the politicians were so eager to finance

[@matthewgoedtel5998]

Nuclear combined with green energy is the only way to have energy independence.

[@benjaminhoward8330]

I grew up in a farming town and went to school with a lot of farmer's kids and I learned a couple things about agriculture most people in the world don't seem to know. 1) Farmers need EVERY advantage they can get in order to have a decent harvest. Before modern insecticides, fungicides, weed killers, fertilizers, irrigation systems, drought resistant seeds, and many many many other agricultural innovations there was always a great risk of a farmers pulling in next to nothicome harvest time. 2) Farming is very much a skilled trade. It requires generations of knowledge and immense commitment. Farmers know what they're doing, they have to otherwise they won't be successful. Knowing these two things I know enough that I should leave decisions on farming in the hands of the farmers.

[@racecar9910]

Watch Mr.Jones and see what leftists want to do to farmers.

[@endthefed5304]

Agreed. Good farmers also know that soil health is the top priority for sustainable and healthy crop yields. This requires a balance of organic methods and high tech savvy.

[@fnusecurity5112]

@@racecar9910 The Left is very smart to a point where they think they can just say things and it will be true. Without realizing the process to get Crops of lettuce in the ground to the Dinner table. There is some great Green house or Water ones. That use Fish poop to fertilize plants as they grow and when the Fish get to a certain weight is shipped off to market for food also. So win win. But like farm work. A lot of people working dusk till dawn and some late at night to keep it going and operational. Like one woman said. The government can produce all the food we need.

[@myown2101]

As a bio dynamic farmer, I totally disagree about modern weed killers, fungicides, insecticides, fertilizers...

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

The chemicals are causing cancer and hormonal disorders in humans. Run off into oceans is causing neurological conditions and cancer in sea life which is disrupting the balance which will ultimately affect our food supply further. The fall of the human race will be poisoning our food and water supply.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I’m wondering what total crop output is in the US in 2022 vs prior years? With the skyrocketing prices of fertilizer farmers have been using less of fertilizer and doing more no till or just working the top few inches of the topsoil to reduce labor, fuel and wear on their equipment. Less input in anticipation of less crop output. Plus there was drought across much of the US in 2022.

[@matthewmaclean7368]

The one thing that is true, about climate change, The only people who have to make the sacrifices is the poor.

[@GeoFry3]

"Humans lived in harmony with nature for most of history." One of the biggest lies ever told.

[@brent4073]

Right?!?! Like for tens of thousands of years, humans were making every protein rich animal they could get their hands on go extinct from subsistence hunting.

[@GeoFry3]

@@brent4073 they have pretty much corroborated the dissapearance (extinction) of various walking meat species with the age of cave drawings of said animals. If it ended up on a wall it was driven extinct by the indigenous population.

[@kylewatson5133]

Humans lived in grinding poverty and misery in nature for most of history.

[@arielgoldfarb4118]

Totally

[@wsolly42]

I grew up and live in agriculture. Farmers typically care for their land and animals as best as they can. Either politicians are to stupid to realize what it takes to feed the world, or they are to ignorant. When the rich and powerful live like us and suffer like us I'll listen to their rules.

[@davidcox3076]

Ah, but for our "leaders" food magically appears in their grocery stores. Who are these farmers of which you speak?

[@neinnine4592]

Seems like they are both stupid and intentional, intentionally evil to destroy other's lives and kill. And as many people have pointed out, they should start getting a punishment for that, at least jail time or whatever punishment is appropriate for a genocide by local laws.

[@michaelcap9550]

Most politicians cannot tell a cow from a horse.

[@ripvanrevs]

They aren't stupid or ignorant. They have been bought off by the WEF who want to exterminate most of the human population.

[@Juujun]

@@davidcox3076 Their food magically appears in their homes. If they actually shopped they might have noticed some price increases/shortages and maybe realized those things could affect real people. No chance of that.

[@southeast7259]

This is, because some NGOs became dogmatic to stay relevant over the past 2-3 decades. To save their business models, they went into the institutions, as industry lobbies did. Politicians are the third, most weakest link, since they are depended on the money in this game. Since governments depend more and more on these organizations, instead of the offices in their institutions - policies are made to serve these special interests, so things go out of control and as you can see in some states of the USA, European Union, South East Asia etc., straight into disaster. Societies need to drive NGOs and Lobbies out of the government bodies and take back sovereignty.

[@betawithbrett7068]

Thank you John!!!

[@fanny2081]

Great video! We must fight against the green tyranny!

[@residentgrey]

fight against ecofeudalism. Going green in a better way should be a a no-brainer.

[@residentgrey]

if there is tyranny, it isn't green.

[@OneWildTurkey]

We can't say that our schools, colleges and universities have failed because they have been repurposed. Their new objectives have been successful - the product is a new 'citizen' that doesn't understand the facts of life, at all. The new objectives are producing people that are more programmable than ever before. The programmers are NOT looking out for the wellbeing of the world, they're concerned with their own control of others.

[@residentgrey]

churning out blue-tie vote bots.

[@Ashigeru47]

Our schools now produce childish ideological "useful Idiots" for the Marxist Left, instead of free thinking educated functional adults.

[@myown2101]

George Carlin said the same thing... but it was also funny)

[@beatrixbrennan1545]

Depopulation agenda. First they brainwash you into thinking communist policies are somehow beneficial to you as they're disguised as humanitarian, then they kill you off by said policies.

[@breearuffo9214]

Yes yes yes!!!!! I’ve never bought “organic” food and never will!

[@gc2o4tom81]

Reasonable, educated women and Men like Schellenberger need to be brought in to design policy.

[@ADHD55]

Sri Lanka went woke ESG then had a collapse, where was Greta"how dare you"

[@spardasquadspqr3535]

"Sri lanka, how dare u to collapse"🤣🤣

[@loumencken9644]

One interesting fact about the Sri Lankan revolution- when the Prime Minister fled the country one step ahead of the understandably enraged citizenry, where did he go? The Maldive Islands, the place the UN predicted in 1988 would be underwater in 30 years due to sea level rise caused by global warming. Luckily for the PM, that prediction was as stupidly wrong as pretty much all of the predictions by the climate cultists, so he had a convenient place to run to when he lost his job for inflicting on his country the insane policies urged on him by today's climate cultists. The irony of this would be hilarious if it weren't for the suffering of the Sri Lankan people.

[@E4439Qv5]

We should glad that the worst is forestalled, but Thwaites Glacier is about to go. Let's see how well those atolls last with another ten feet of seawater at high tide... (spoiler warning, it's not great.)

[@guidedmeditation2396]

Each state needs to immediately work on plans to encourage food production NOW. Simply asking residents to grow one or two vegetables in a pot alone could make a huge difference. Just one Zuccini plant or happy tomato plant can add a lot of food for a family on a weekly basis. Why not offer tax credits to start new chicken and fish farms. ASAP.

[@batboy49]

I have TRIED to make this case to the people I care about. Organic food ultimately means starving people....

[@onlyweknow2]

It’s fucking insanity!

[@jackking5567]

I've always been someone who cares for the environment and the quality of food that we eat. I recognise though that fertilisers are essential in a modern society and that without them the world will step back some 800 years and plunge into the Dark Ages. It's mind boggling that countries are pushing to a green agenda and yet the green technologies in place cannot support that country. Even if they did support the countries they're still too costly. Green technology is not green at all - look into it.

[@goodolearkygal5746]

I care about the environment. Only a monster would allow humans to starve to save some animal or plant.

[@kellyyoung1665]

where did the material to make the synthetic fertilizer come from? answer is everything comes from the earth, just because a human mixes it or we use what was mixed in a cows stomach, does not make the human mix bad

[@djm5687]

@@goodolearkygal5746 The eventual goal is to reduce the Earth's population. Birth control, abortion, and euthanasia are all supported by leftists. Leftists even supported (some continue to support) China's brutal "one child policy".

[@patmcbride9853]

This is what would have happened if Thomas Malthus had the power of the leftist media and opportunistic politicians helping him to make his doomsday scenario come true. Fortunately, modern fertilizer and improved farming techniques made it possible to feed a growing population without increasing farmed acreage.

[@ShovelMonkey]

That's right, it's blood red.

[@donnacribb7825]

Truth absolutely truth

[@Mary-uz2tz]

They were forced to go GM by Mansanto decades ago. Prior to that Africa was farming successfully.

[@gorilladisco9108]

"Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life." - Robert Brent

[@Barskor1]

Biology is what would teach that guy you can't just "sugar" the ground every season with nitrogen and have no serious harm happen to the soil. Learn what Permaculture is and see the future of farming.

[@AtrusOranis]

I lived in Sri Lanka for 2 years. The news of what happened makes me extremely angry, sad, and disgusted.

[@norbertfleck812]

It is well known that organic farming - even in Germany where it is forced and scientifically supported for more than a decade - means a reduction of harvest by approximately 50%

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

I grew up on a dairy farm and I’m wondering how much more petroleum farming would use working more ground trying to grow enough organic crops for 8 billion people?

[@carriemou3678]

Regenerative agriculture can recover farming land and improve the environment, but it cannot be implemented in one year! These "Green" policies are beyond any reason.

[@markhasenour12]

So called "regenerative agriculture" is nothing but a scam..... I'm a fifth generation farmer BTW

[@residentgrey]

No. Speak of the good stuff. You started to but then went to the wrong direction. We are not seeing the true "green" policies yet but these that claim to be yet are not in the slightest so. The ones forcing it are incompetent tyrants who want us to be as peasants.

[@Captain_Fantasy]

Exactly. This collapse was equally cheered on by the greenies and the chemical industry. You can't pull the fertilizers and expect a crop from the dead dirt you've created over years of destroying the soil. It takes time to regenerate.

[@alexs1972]

I love how every super "green" person at my work has never stood in a river fishing, hiked a summit, ridden a mountain bike, gone swimming in the ocean, or let alone be able to identify any bird or animal outside of a city. Yet they somehow care about nature more

[@Aireck174]

It amazes me how the left is so passionate about so many things but they take 0 times to actually educate themselves on the subject. They do the same with gns and gn laws, economy, war, law enforcement...

[@nicolasbeaudry6158]

I am just an avid libertarian now. Mr Jordan Peterson, and John stossel are in my 2 man mentors of this new year. ⚜️🙏🏻

[@michaelnewman3517]

It's the biggest scam ever being forced mandated to make somebody feel good. Electric vehicles to me are about restricted travel. It would also be a very expensive venture to just own one.

[@ExaltedDuck]

The biggest most deeply concerning aspect to all of this is the overwhelming likelihood that those negative consequences that we are observing now in places like Sri Lanka are actually completely intentional or at least acceptable among those who have pushed the policies as they are. It's like these heavy left-wing whatever you want to call them our culturally suicidal. And it's nothing short of evil for everyone else to get pulled down into their abyss.

[@ChrisTedoni]

A lot of these "less desirable" places are used as testing grounds for policies they will use later. It used to be done within the same country when you didn't have power to exert over others, but the second you can use people you don't care about as fodder, you test out things. Unless you are the FBI and CIA and then you just do horrific things on your own citizenry since it's a known environment.

[@janicehopkins4432]

They are selfish self-haters, and their motto is misery loves company so they must drag us all down with them.

[@theophilus5132]

I agree. The math they do in their head probably goes like this: In 5, 10, 15, 25, etc. years, the earth will undergo a scorching flood. To reverse this irreversible catastrophe, we must radically reduce the x, y, and z things that modern humans have to come to rely on for their survival. By reducing x, y, and z, the problem is that many people will die of natural causes. This is an acceptable level of collateral damage because the planet will be "saved" but with a severely reduced human population. It all comes down to how far back to the stone age the Green Left wants to go.

[@beatrixbrennan1545]

It is definitely intentional. They had to come up with a plan that sounded humanitarian to implement their depopulation agenda. Whatever the left says, they really mean the opposite. It's all in the Bible. We are in the end times and the only savior we have from all this madness is not found in anyone or anything on this earth. It is found in Jesus Christ alone.

[@cateatfood6634]

They're not sucicdal, they want to suicide us peons.

[@Websitedr]

I had no idea this was why it collapsed. Green energy policy keeps pushing EVs even though the resources to mine for the batteries and the power required to charge them does way more harm than using a gas powered vehicle. Politicians are pushing this because it makes them wealthy.

[@residentgrey]

You do not describe actual green energy policy.

[@residentgrey]

They do not want us independent or self-sufficient.

[@melissadeloach8503]

EVs are the new plastic grocery bag. Remember when we they made us go from paper to plastic in order to "save the trees?" Then we found out the plastic bags were causing even more damage to the planet than the paper ones.

[@blob5907]

I knew the whole time

[@edwardcarberry1095]

Learning is always a Good Thing! As it prevents/stops the LIES which are Told to push an Agenda!

[@jtruth5617]

If your government does this, end them permanently.

[@jayejaycurry5485]

The problem in Sri Lanka is that organic farming can't be done overnight. It can take up to 10 years to bring soil back to life after toxic fertilization of the soil. It's a gradual pricess - something politicians cant conceive. Politicians are too ignorant to be sticking their noses into ither peoples business. Thats why limiting government is so vital.

[@johncrocker4209]

Thanks for bringing attention to this.

[@nebula0024]

Unfortunately, this may be one of those scenarios where things have to get *really* bad before a real solution can be made. From the industrial revolution to now, we went from one extreme to the other, while skipping over a balance entirely. With the world's political leaders hellbent on tipping the scales completely in the opposite direction, we're creating a global humanitarian crisis in real-time. This all has a twisted sense of irony to it, too - they've been telling everyone climate change was going to create a global crisis but instead we're doing it to ourselves.

[@angryzak4389]

Every single crisis we have had in our history, we have always made it worse because we tried to do something to stop it

[@ckmoore101]

Which conservatives laid out 30 years ago, in specificity. And it is happening _exactly_ how we said it would.

[@tracybarhite1764]

The politicians and elite establishment are living just fine. It's the regular people that are getting crushed by their rules !

[@nappa3550]

@@ckmoore101 can't tell if you're mocking conservatives or not.. lol. Can you simplify for a "simpleton" as me?

[@ckmoore101]

@@nappa3550 I think you left out a word or two.

[@REALChannel99]

1:37 so in Sri Lanka it's called a protest, in America it's billed as insurgency. Fascinating

[@thorlin3826]

The Sri Lankan president told people who he was before they elected him, remember that. They wanted the tax cut he offered. They voted for starvation. I hope they know better next time... Should they survive this time. God help them.

[@dustinpaul8968]

I agree with treating the environment as precious but you can not flip a switch and turn industries. It is irresponsible and results in inflation that crushes the middle class and poor. If green sources of energy or fertilizer are made economical then people will use them by choice instead of having it crammed down their throats. Innovation is the only way to move an economy or industry responsibly.

[@valdivia1234567]

Agreed. But people are, by and large, lazy and stupid. They're willfully ignorant. They want to jump on a bandwagon so they can be part of something. So, hundreds of millions of them see these slick, well-produced, climate crisis videos with dramatic narration by some celebtard and they get sucked into it. They're idiots. Consequently, logical solutions aren't encouraged or embraced.

[@godseed7984]

Exactly 💯

[@jimruby9657]

And, contrary to what some people say, making these affordable shouldn't be done by government subsidies! Government can encourage investment and research, but efficient effective production will have to be what brings the cost down, not crony distribution of tax dollars.

[@dustinpaul8968]

@@jimruby9657 I agree in a capitalist society government subsidies are simply the government picking winners and losers with our taxpayer dollars and most of the time its slight of hand. Like the $7,500 dollar government subsidy for electric vehicles that are made in America. Just so happens Ford and Chevrolet both went up $7,500 on their electric vehicle fleet across the board the day the latest package passed. We are being sold out by our politicians.

[@halcooper6059]

Amen!

[@alaskansummertime]

I have an organic nursery business. Organic is far more productive but it takes years to implement. Most people also lack the knowledge of how to do it. I see a scary amount of magical thinking with a lot of customers. They think simply placing one comfrey plant on your property will magically improve ALL the soil on your property. Its honestly pretty frustrating trying to educate the general public to grow organically.

[@markhasenour12]

So called organic is nothing but a scam to get ignorant and gullible people to pay more for less quality. I'm a fifth generation farmer...

[@residentgrey]

Spread that knowledge.

[@residentgrey]

There is still more to consider of course but that alone would still be a huge help in replacing fertilizers.

[@markhasenour12]

@@residentgrey you are so ignorant....

[@gregoryeverson741]

i have 3 inches of topsoil, after that its wet clay

[@magnvss]

The growth in urban population has alienated (isolated) more people from the realities of rural life and knowledge. This mean that utterly ignorant people who never ever own a farm or even a garden buy ridiculous notions about how food could be produced on mass. Of course that you can make organic tomatoes with poo on a pot and call it a win and think you know everything about nature, but you don't live all year long with that produce. So many things are involved to successfully feed billions and Greta Thumbergian people are messing with things they know nothing about or care little about. Or worse: most people misery means more power to them (as people are more easily bought). Full stomachs are harder to bribe.

[@riffmondo9733]

ESG drives the insanity

[@gulayatbp8261]

"how dare you". question their agenda?! 😂🤣

[@KentuckyFriedFixes]

Soil testing to determine how much fertilizer is required has been a standard practice in the US for as long as I can remember. Education and local agencies to assist farmers in determining exactly how much fertilizer they need to use for each field based on soil sample testing would be the best problem solvers for the overuse of chemical fertilizers around the World. The answer is to use chemical fertilizers wisely thru testing and education, not to ban them completely out of ignorance.

[@Beyonder8335]

As a farmer, you nailed it dude. 98% of the stuff we do is trying to use the least amount of fertilizer possible, while still getting good output. People cannot figure out that it’s not only better for environment, but also our business.

[@ryang2573]

I also hear that modern combines have sensors that have databases that map the combine's current position to the yields from last years harvest and automatically adjust the amount of chemicals they're putting down to compensate. So the area that didn't yield much gets a little more fertilizer while the area that did super well gets its fertilizer reduced. Not sure if this is widespread tech or not, but - if that's the case - the ability to fine tune application to just what's needed can be used to further reduce overapplication and mitigate the concerns of the more rational environmentalists (i.e. the one's that aren't so insane that they think humanity is a virus that deserves extinction.)

[@Beyonder8335]

@@ryang2573 that’s a thing, most people in my area run variable rate in some capacity, so. I assume it’s fairly widespread.

[@joylarson9040]

This is Americas doing!

[@l0lan00b3]

Now that was a "protest" right there

[@algernoncalydon3430]

Here in the US we will experience the same thing when the rulers do the same stupid thing. Just remember this quote from a farmer, "Soil is just something to hold the fertilizer." The soil was played out decades ago. Without fertilizer, no food. No food, no people.

[@courtjester1135]

So you're saying 'it's almost like a new approach to population control induced by G7 counties.' I never thought of it that way.

[@vidyanandbapat8032]

In India, we call the dramatic rise in production of foodgrains because of use of chemical fertilizers and genetically modified seeds as green revolution and rise in milk production because of genetically modified bteeds of cattle as white revolution.

[@bvegannow1936]

Fertilizers are unessicary to grow food. Large monocrops growing same crop year after year depletes the soil. chemicals added like pesticides disturb natural bacteria and fungi processes in the soil that help nutrients in soil get to plants, that can result in lower yield. Pesticides and toxic chemicals can affect benifical insects like pollenators reducing pollenation rates resulting in lower yield. Poly culture diverse organic food forests are good. The variety of crops together helps provide a larger variety of nutrients in decomposed crops and compost that is added back to soil. different plants require different nutrients. Grown together and crop rotation can help them take different nutrients, and leave other nutrients for other plants. Nitrogen fixing plants can be added. Let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Organic fertilizer and composted cow manure run off causes problems in water too. they shouldn't ban fertilizer, instead they could ban exsessive pollution. It should be an individual case basis to determine if they r causing too much pollution from their fertilizer.

[@manapunk3085]

We need more John Stossel’s in this world.

[@chonconnor6144]

Been a fan since the 1990s, nice to see traditional journalistic presentation and information combined with a common sense bias. It was uncommon then but rare today.

[@richardangers2566]

In US they had energy levels for washin machines, I read in WSJ or Consumer report, that to get clothes clean, you had to wash them twice! They had fleet mpg goals, too.