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The Climate Change Hoax – The world is going on a massive diet – like it or not
BY SIMONE J. SMITH
Once again, I am here to report on some news that I really do not want to, but it is our duty to let our community know exactly what is going on around the world, and how it is going to drastically affect us.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that severe food shortages are coming and appear to be inevitable, more or less worldwide, all due to the most recent Climate Change propaganda that is being pushed by governments across the globe. That’s why now is a crucial time to learn new methods of self-sufficiency and resiliency, and I will go over a few methods at the end of the article. I also encourage those who are proficient at growing food, and storing food to send in suggestions to us at info@carib101.com, or directly to me at simone@carib101.com. When you complete this article, you will see why doing so is of extreme importance.
I am going to present information that is coming out from parts of the world that may not necessarily make it to us through mainstream media. There is a lot to take in here, so I am going to do my best not to overwhelm, but I will say this, the world is going on a massive diet, whether we like it or not!
Our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking a 30% reduction in nitrogen pollution by 2030. He says that he is not mandating fertilizer use reductions, only pollution reductions, and his experts agree that such a radical pollution decline in such a short period will only be possible through reducing fertilizer use, and thus food production.
What will this mean? The cost to farmers would be between $10 billion and $48 billion.
Where the proposed Dutch restrictions are driven by land and air pollution concerns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s restrictions are driven by the desire for strong action on climate change.
“If you push farmers against the wall with no wiggle room, I don’t know where this will end up. Just look at what’s happening in Europe, in the Netherlands. They’ve had enough of it.” Gunter Jochum (President of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association)
Most recently, two fertilizer producers in Europe have shut down and this is due to record prices for natural gas.
“Although there are no problems with the availability of gas, the current situation on the gas market, which determines the profitability of production activity, is exceptional and completely beyond the company’s control.” Grupa Azoty, the European Union’s second-largest fertilizer producer
Fertilizer is the main raw material for Grupa Azoty SA’s production. The company decided on August 22nd, 2022, to temporarily shut down its nitrogen fertilizer, caprolactam, and polyamide 6 production plants from August 23rd, 2022. This shutdown will limit the amount of fertilizer available for the next sowing season. Coupled with drought conditions afflicting the current harvest system, this is really bad news for the global food supply.
Grupa Azoty says it will continue to monitor the price level of all raw materials and goods needed to make fertilizer production profitable once again before deciding to reopen the plant. Reports have come in that the company did not, however, give any indication as to when it expects to resume operations.
Another Polish fertilizer producer, ANWIL, announced on the same day that it, too, would no longer be producing fertilizer due to skyrocketing energy costs.
“Due to an unprecedented and record-breaking increase in natural gas prices in Europe, ANWIL has decided to temporarily suspend the production of nitrogenous fertilizers. The company is constantly monitoring the situation on the commodity market. As soon as macroeconomic conditions on the gas market stabilize, production will resume,” ANWIL announced on its website on August 23rd.
Why are they doing this? Well, the government wants to force agriculture to halve its nitrogen emissions by 2030. Farmers in the Netherlands had tried to work with the government by reducing nitrogen pollution by nearly 70% through a voluntary system, but the government said that was not enough. The government continues to claim that nature would improve immediately if some critical value is not exceeded.
There has been pushbacks against this, and for good reason. “There is no scientific evidence for that,” emphasized Agraction leader Bart Kemp in the studio of broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland.
The efforts by the government have sparked a fierce backlash among Dutch farmers, who argue that the government seems more interested in reducing animal agriculture than in finding solutions that protect the food supply and their livelihoods.
“Why would you buy out farmers or reduce livestock when you have the possibility to invest in innovation? That’s what I think is so crazy. We can produce food in a much more efficient and cleaner way if we do that. And it’s much cheaper also then by buying out farmers.” Caroline van der Plas (The Founder and Sole Member of Parliament for the Farmer-Citizen Movement party)
The question here is, how does this affect us here in the western world? The Netherlands is the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the second largest exporter of food overall by economic value in the world, after the United States. This is a remarkable feat for a nation half the size of Indiana. Farm exports have been reported to generate nearly $100 billion a year in revenue. Experts attribute the nation’s success to its farmers’ embrace of technological innovation.
A country that has disappeared from the headlines of world politics is Sri Lanka, and there is a good reason for that. Until recently, reports of civil war-like unrest and an energy emergency have been circulating, and gasoline and electricity were being rationed.
In July, after months of unrest, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country, abandoning his country to an economic crisis and food shortages. In 2019, he had been going around and praising his government for fighting artificial fertilizer. Sri Lanka wanted to convert its agriculture completely to organic farming and for this reason had banned the import of conventional fertilizer and fuel.
The fatal result: in just one year, Sri Lanka went from being a rice exporter to an importer. This government organized organic experiment plunged half a million people into poverty and sent prices skyrocketing by well over 50%.
On the topic of importing and exporting, delivery delays are becoming a financial burden to many shippers. Time is money, and a vessel or container at rest takes both out of the supply chain. Global shippers are now preparing for volatility in the coming quarters. A new report shows that with disruptions and uncertainty sweeping across every facet of the worldwide supply chain, the vast majority of companies are in panic mode, and executives expect current conditions to continue or even worsen by the end of the year.
A recent study by QIMA, a global quality control, and compliance service provider, uncovered that U.S. companies are experiencing a broad array of issues, and of course, these problems are not only causing shortages, but are raising the price of food. Food inflation is set to hit between 15 and 20% this year. When supply chains get choked up like that and farmers can’t make ends meet, food becomes expensive, fast. An example is this summer, Kraft Heinz announced plans to hike prices by as much as 30%, and other companies are expected to follow the same move while U.S.
Community, I am sharing this information with you so that you are not shocked by the coming wave of price increases. The current outlook is extremely gloomy, and industry giants are telling us to brace for some serious shockwaves as peak-shipping season begins for volatile supply chains. Global systems of food and energy production are being increasingly targeted and dismantled. There are theorists out there who claim that this is all part of The Great Reset, a decades-old plan from the World Economic Forum (WEF) to seize control of wealth and resources.
So what can we do? START TO GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!
This is something we encourage virtually everyone to take part in. Even if you have limited space, it’s possible to grow quite a bit of food to feed yourself and your family. I recently read about one food that requires very minimal space, yet packs a powerful nutritional punch. I am talking about sprouts.
Sprouts and microgreens offer unique benefits due to the fact that they’re in their initial and early phase of growth. During this time, the plants contain more concentrated amounts of nutrients, making them nutrient-dense than their full-grown vegetable counterparts, providing higher amounts of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and health-promoting phytochemicals.
This means that you need to eat far less, in terms of amount, compared to a mature plant. Another benefit is that sprouts can also contain up to 100 times more enzymes than their full-grown counterparts, which allows your body to extract higher levels of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients from other foods, and help protect against chemical carcinogens.
If grown correctly, in about a week, you can have fresh, nutritious food. During times of food crisis, this makes sprouts an ideal food source. Their short growth cycle allows them to be harvested daily as needed.
We also suggest visiting your local food bank and stocking up on canned foods and dried goods. Canned foods and dry staples such as rice and beans can also stay viable long past their expiration date under the right conditions. Other good options include: canned salmon, canned cod livers, sardines in water (avoid ones preserved in vegetable oil), nuts, powdered milk and whey and other nutritional powders you can mix with water.
Do not ignore this warning; it is time that we do something, and we are going to have to work together to do it.