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2022-12-13 Europe
Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules
[ZERO] The Dutch government plans to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to comply with EU nature preservation rules.
I'm Bill Gates, and this is my world.
And what about the farmers who still believe in sovereignty and private property rights?

Well, the Dutch Government has something to say to those extremists. There is no better offer coming," Christianne van der Wal, nitrogen minister, told MPs on Friday. She said compulsory purchases would be made with "pain in the heart", if necessary.

All this is due to the scam of global warming... urgh I mean, climate change. Or is it "carbon emissions?"

I struggle to keep up. I’ve come to the conclusion that the earth is fine — it’s the people that are fukt.

Hegelian dialectic at work. Problem, action, solution. The Dutch government, which is merely a puppet of the unelected central planners, creates a food shortage problem.

The sheeple suffer the consequences and then hilariously look to that very government to "do something."

What are they going to do?

Well, that’s easy. They’re going to offer people poison in the form of "food." All patented. Watch!
Time to start a garden in the front yard and window boxes, replacing grass and geraniums. Add a rabbit hutch for meat.
What are the Central Planners going to do with all this stolen farmland?

The voluntary buyout scheme was "the only way to finally create opportunities for the construction of homes, the construction of new infrastructure and for projects to make the Netherlands more sustainable in the shortest possible time," said Ingrid Thijssen, chairman of VNO-NCW, an employers’ federation in the Netherlands.

Those refugees all need homes, too, you know? It’s all about "equality," folks. Shut up and stop complaining!

We remain long our food plays, which are fertilizer companies.

They’ve had a decent run from when we first started loading up some 3 years ago now, but if we’re right, this will be just part of the pullback before the next leg up.

Here are Mosaic and Nutrien, which I’m using as proxies for the sector. We own both.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-13 06:25|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 This should work out well.
Posted by Chris 2022-12-13 08:25||   2022-12-13 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Learn to code, er EAT BUGS!
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-12-13 08:34||   2022-12-13 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 
In a few months, food hord'ers will be rich, if not well-fed.
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Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-13 08:55||   2022-12-13 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Y'know what? I recommend cannibalism. Hunt and eat government workers. Two birds with one stone. Think about the good thousands of enraged cannibalistic Dutch farmers could do.

Hey! I think it's happened before.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-13 09:33||   2022-12-13 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 The Dutch will still have enough food. Unfortunately they have a huge export market. Brown people will starve. The Netherlands will just lose a huge amount of revenue just as energy prices skyrocket. Christianne van der Wahl will be kicked out of office and be forced to retire to a life of beaches and ski results.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-13 10:01||   2022-12-13 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Civilizational suicide - fun for the whole family!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-12-13 10:37||   2022-12-13 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 It’s a land grab.
Posted by Neville Snore8990 2022-12-13 11:33||   2022-12-13 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Brown people will starve. The Globalists will import food from Somewhere Else™ while being smug in their righteousness ...while ignoring that food is fungible. The Biofuels Ethanol Scam™ raised corn prices indirectly in Central and South America which, again, let 'brown people' grow hungry.
Posted by magpie 2022-12-13 11:34||   2022-12-13 11:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Having visited several times, never failed to be impressed by the fact that many, if not all farms had an excavator among the traditional equipment. As well as windmill to pump the water into canals for routing to the North Sea. (That lock installation is quite impressive when viewed up close)
So if the farms shut down, who is going to maintain the drainage canals and the pumping infrastructure to maintain the current sea level/arable land??

Would not be surprised to see traditional windmills replaced with ic engine-driven pumps.
Makes perfect green sense.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-12-13 11:35||   2022-12-13 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Wasn't EC telling us last week that nitrogen fertilizer turn to nitrates/nitrites in the ground and poisons the ground water? So, it's not global warming, its the water causing cancer. Well, that's how I remember what European Conservative posted.

But some alternative must exist. Cow pies? Ugh, that's methane. OK, something. C'mon. What about the old honey buckets the Japanese used to use for their rice paddies? How about finding a way to remove nitrites from the water?

Or else what will kill us? Starvation, nitrites in the water or global warming? I think starvation would be the quickest way to kill masses of people. So did Joe Stalin.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-13 13:47||   2022-12-13 13:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Killing masses of people seems to be the goal, Abu.
Posted by AlanC 2022-12-13 17:28||   2022-12-13 17:28|| Front Page Top

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