A couple of months ago? As we speak, farmers in the Netherlands are blocking border crossings, fishermen are blocking ports, and the whole country is in turmoil. There are farmers mobilizing in Germany and Italy. In fact, massive protests are breaking out in a number of European countries.
This isn’t just about vaccines now. It’s about insane climate/enviro policy that is going to destroy a big percentage of the world’s food supply and lead to mass starvation if we aren’t careful. And insane energy policy that has given Putin the power to make large chunks of Europe freeze in the dark if they don’t kowtow to him. it’s also providing him with enough funds to pursue the war indefinitely.
The Netherlands, for example, is the second largest food exporter in the world after the U.S. We are in a global food/supply chain crisis and yet the government there wants to cut nitrogen fertilizer use by 30-90%, depending on the farming region. The government also wants a massive culling of cattle because they are bad for greenhouse gases. That will essentially cut crop yields by at least 30%, and put a large number of farms out of business, Trudeau wants to do something similar in Canada.
Sri Lanka already tried to ban nitrogen fertilizers, and it destroyed their agriculture industry and the government there fell two days ago to massive riots. Inflation due to wild deficit spending and terrible energy policy is also firing up the European protests.
Canada may have provided an example of what private people with large machinery can do, but similar protests in Europe are for different reasons and are not going away until we stop the madness.
In the meantime, Germany just announced it is closing its final three nuclear plants anyway, and replacing them with coal fired plants (well, replacing 1/4 of their lost capacity) - this while panicking over the risk of Putin cutting off the natural gas they rely on. And so while the Netherlands is destroying its agriculture for global warming, its neighbor is going the other direction and increasingly relying on natural gas and coal.
And in the U.S, Washington state is planning to shut down 8 perfectly green hydro dams because of a lawsuit saying they negatively impact salmon populations. They have no plans to replace the energy, and are possibly the worst state for solar power.
The world is going mad. The truckers are just a symptom. It’s happening everywhere. If we aren’t careful, we’re going to wind up killing a billion people.