Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition

[Kimstu]

@Sam_Stone

The government of the Netherlands, in accordance with a WEF plan wants to confiscate thousands of farms and shut them down because nitrogen fertilizer is bad.

@k9bfriender

Remember when you were shown how wrong you were on this assertion?

@Wincerind

Could you provide a cite for this statement about the Netherlands? I live there and it is total fantasy. Total and utter nonsense. Not even a faint glimmer of truth on the horizon.

Oh lordy, it’s just a re-run of something I thought we had straightened out back in September.

@Kimstu

For Pete’s sake, Sam, you know better than to keep spouting this particular nonsense. The Dutch government isn’t imposing regulations about nitrogen fertilizer reduction for the sake of some woolly bureaucratic generalization about “how to run agriculture more efficiently”. They’re doing it for the specific purpose of reducing dangerous levels of nitrogen pollution, which the farmers themselves have not successfully managed to do in their efficient running of agriculture.

Not to mention back in July:

@Kimstu

Since the Netherlands’ agriculture and environment have already started severely suffering from its catastrophic nitrogen excess, what makes you think that the situation’s going to get any better if they just pretend the problem doesn’t exist for a while?

Nitrogen crisis from jam-packed livestock operations has ‘paralyzed’ Dutch economy
Ecological damage from manure fumes triggers calls for drastic change to agriculture
4 DEC 2019 […]

Nitrogen, a key nutrient for plants, is also an insidious pollutant. Fertilizer washing off fields ends up in lakes and coastal areas, causing algal blooms that kill marine life. Airborne nitrogen can also harm ecosystems. One source is nitrogen oxides, mostly from power plants and engine exhaust. In the Netherlands, even more comes from the ammonia vapors from livestock urine and manure. […]

The Netherlands is a nitrogen hot spot partly because it is a dense, urbanized nation, although controls on power plants and catalytic converters in autos have helped curb nitrogen oxide emissions. The bigger problem is ammonia emissions from concentrated livestock operations.