Aha, The Socialist Agenda Surfaces - Population Control Through Famine
Biofuels, and droppng pesticides cutting global food productions
Dennis Avery
July 4, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3822
British diesel is a self-inflicted $12 per gallon, biofuels have nearly
doubled their food prices, and 40 percent of U.K electrical power will
be shut down over the next six years. Now, the same Green alarmists, who
warn of man-made warming while the planet cools, demand sharp reductions
in Europe's pesticide use. That will slash Europe's crop production in
half during a global food emergency.
Is Green really the world's way forward?
Europe's Large Combustion Plant Directive will shutter 17 big generating
plants in the UK alone for emitting too much CO2. Never mind that the
earth has not warmed as the alarmists predicted-and has been actually
cooling for 16 months in defiance of the climate models.
Until now, the EU has regulated pesticides based on their contribution
to producing food-balanced against the farmer's relatively small risks
of using them. Henceforth, however, pesticide permissions will be
radically tightened based on theoretical risks dreamed up by the
alarmists.
Britain's Pesticide Safety Directorate says conventional agriculture
will become impossible in much of Europe. Farming costs will soar and
yields will fall. Is this simply the old Green demand for population
control-through famine?
Have the pest protection chemicals been quietly killing off European
citizens? Actually, Europeans are living longer than ever, and should
add 5 years to their lifespan by 2050-unless they starve after the crop
protection chemicals are cancelled.
Have all Europe's birds and butterflies died off due to pesticide
spraying? Actually, biologists are finding increasing biodiversity
across the EU as vegetation, butterflies, birds, mussels, fish, and
mammals all take advantage of the warm and moderate "interglacial"
climate we've had since the end of the Little Ice Age.
Global temperatures increased only 0.2 degree C from 1940 to 1998, and
recently have dropped back more than 0.5 degree C.
Why, then, cancel the insecticides that allow us to control the
plant-munching bugs, the termites, and the roaches; the fungicides that
suppress the fungus so prevalent in Europe's rainy crop fields; the
herbicides that control the weeds, which otherwise steal half the
sunlight, moisture, and soil nutrients from the crop plants?
Organic farmers claim they can feed the world, but Denmark's high-level
Bichel Committee re****ted in 1999 that an all-organic farming mandate
would cut Danish food production roughly in half. The University of
Michigan said in 2007 that organic farming could triple world food
output-but the study's lead author was a fully-qualified geologist with
no farming experience.
Humanity has recently enjoyed some of the most comfortable weather in
the history of the planet. The Modern Warming should last several more
centuries, at least, with less than 1 degree C of further temperature
increase.
The only huge run up in temperatures is found in the unverified computer
models.
We have massively increased global food production, despite warnings
from generations of Greens that farm science was "dangerous." Bill Gates
is trying now to extend Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution to feed Africa
as well. Meanwhile, declining Third World birth rates indicate a peak
human population about 2040, followed by a long, slow decline in human
numbers as trade and technology spread affluence worldwide.
Is life too good? Is that why we feel compelled to make it more
difficult?,
Dennis T. Avery, is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute in
Wa****ngton. Dennis is the Director for Global Food Issues
([url=http://www.cgfi.org]http://www.cgfi.org[/url]).
He was formerly a
senior analyst for the Department of State.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
: "They don't tell you, that, in their computer models, it's assumed
that CO2 drives global warming. In other words, you assume the result
and say the computer model proves we were right. It's garbage in,
garbage out. If you don't program the computers to cause temperatures to
rise with CO2, then you have nothing." Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor
Emeritus Geology, Western Wa****ngton University
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