Dutch Farmers May Be Forced To Kill Off 30% Of Livestock To Save Planet

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The global food shortage is driven by insane eco-activists who think that saving the planet is more important than saving human lives. The livestock industry has been under attack since the UN’s Agenda 21 was created in 1992. This entire program is anti-human and anti-civilization. ⁃ TN Editor

Egged on by eco-activists, the highest court in the Netherlands ordered the government to comply with an EU law to reduce the inert gas nitrogen in vulnerable areas. That would mean culling 30% of its livestock. One farming organization called the plans ‘disgusting’.

The proposal sparked protests from the farming community, while enviro-nutters called for even more action.

The 30% reduction is in response to the so-called ‘nitrogen crisis’, including concerns about ammonia pollution.

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‘Progressives’ strive to silence climate debate

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Authoritarianism, always latent in progressivism, is becoming explicit. Progressivism’s determination to regulate thought by regulating speech is apparent in the campaign by 20 state attorneys general, none Republican, to criminalize skepticism about the supposedly “settled” conclusions of climate science.

Four core tenets of progressivism are: First, history has a destination. Second, progressives uniquely discern it. (Barack Obama frequently declares things to be on or opposed to “the right side of history.”) Third, politics should be democratic but peripheral to governance, which is the responsibility of experts scientifically administering the regulatory state. Fourth, enlightened progressives should enforce limits on speech (witness IRS suppression of conservative advocacy groups) in order to prevent thinking unhelpful to history’s progressive unfolding.

Progressivism is already enforced on campuses by restrictions on speech that might produce what progressives consider retrograde intellectual diversity. Now, from the so-called party of science, aka Democrats, comes a campaign to criminalize debate about science.

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