In response to ‘climate change’ goals that threaten small farms, the Dutch are taking to the streets. Or what used to be the streets before they were blocked:
This is highly reminiscent of the Yellow Jacket protests in France. We can expect these types of things to continue as the government-created food shortages become a certainty.
Step back for a minute and elevate the discussion to a bigger review. In the past several months every single institution of policy making has stated, many emphatically, that a looming global food crisis is imminent. No one is hedging on this point; everyone in the geopolitical system is in alignment saying there will be food shortages.
Joe Biden, NATO, the G7, the European Union, the World Bank, USAID, and every western leader in the United States and Europe has stated there will be food shortages.
They are not saying there might be shortages; their statements are emphatic, there will be shortages.
Accept this basic cornerstone. Then ask why not a single proactive step has been taken by any of the aforementioned institutions or governments to alleviate what they declare is a certainty. Why?
It’s sort of like asking why we haven’t increased healthcare capacity after 2+ years of the ‘pandemic’ threatening hospitals……..
I agree - some, maybe many, folks are adaptable. Some can, and will, learn to cope. Sadly, many others will learn to eat bugs, take their soma, "own nothing, and be happy".
The "normal" state, for the great mass of humanity, for most of history, has been abject poverty, punctuated by intermittent war, famine and disease. The great unwashed have been ruled by very, very small groups. Who have often been disproportionately wealthy. Often to a degree beyond, far beyond, anything our modern billionaires can imagine.
It is possible to conjecture that this past few centuries, with the industrial revolution, rise of the 'middle class', and the resulting insanely high standard of living and life expectancies, (for some people), is a tiny blip in the cycle of history.
It's also possible to imagine, and hope, that sanity will prevail, and that our immediate descendants will enjoy "lives of peace and plenty". But I'm not holding my breath.
the manure is a nice touch