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Netherland farmers are demonstrating in response to “targets introduced last month” by the Dutch government “to reduce harmful nitrogen compounds by 2030,” which authorities say “are necessary in emissions of nitrogen oxides from farm animal manure and from the use of ammonia in fertilizer.”
If successfully implemented, the state initiative to “go green” would almost certainly cripple the country’s private agricultural industry, as the regulations are “expected to include reducing livestock and buying up some farms whose animals produce large amounts of ammonia.”
“The honest message … is that not all farmers can continue their business,” the government admitted in a statement last month.

The Netherlands has about 19 million people and their impact on global warming would be slight, if at all. But they are a significant exporter of food and the decline of farmland will be felt in Europe. 

Like the Germans cutting their nuclear plants, the elite has a disregard--or ignorance--of the impact of the things they do to feel better at their cocktail parties. 

Regrettably, their big hearts do not include us poor working stiffs.