No farms - no food! Farmers protest in the Netherlands

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The ranting anti-science presenter really hasn't got any understanding of what he's criticising. Those protesting farmers have been made totally reliant on fossil fuel based fertiliser inputs but are oblivious to the environment that they are at the mercy of to grow their crops. I imagine they will be lining up for government handouts when extreme climatic events threaten their livelihoods but they are all too happy to keep abusing the environment with their fuel and fertiliser use. Take a look at the heat wave currently scorching Europe to see just one such example of how our environment is now showing them the errors in what they have expected it to absorb.

You really do watch some shit propaganda content!

I didnt even think much of the content had much to do with greenhouse gases at all, it was more to do with nitrate use on farms.
Presumably all this is over fertilizer use, not to do with greenhouse emissions at all, although that is still a huge issue for farmers and is a separate thing altogether.

Why blame farmers on climate change anyway? Its the bloody cars that are the issue, not farts from cows!

That sort of ignorance is what comes from listening to that sort of online propaganda.

The nitrogen fertiliser that the protests relate to are manufactured from hydrocarbon inputs. Its manufacture has a large impact on atmospheric CO2 and its use degrades soil organic matter which also emits CO2. And then the farmers take their diesel tractors on a nationwide road protest to complain about environmental constraints being served on them. Surely even you can see the hypocracy in that action

Holland also has some of the highest groundwater nitrate levels in Europe so it isn't only the atmosphere they're degrading with rampant N fertiliser use.