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As you know, it’s been by some magical kind of cosmic trick of the universe that human kind is still roaming the planet after all these years given that all the cows, pigs and sheep have been farting about and making the climate change.
Thousands upon thousand of years, or if you prefer, billions upon billions of years of mother earth having to endure the ugliness of human beings – and these stupid humans haven’t rescued her and are still here – mucking about mother earth, unable to clear the air of these pesky creatures’ continuous farting…until now.
As you probably expected, Denmark has come to the forefront of the war on creature flatulence and devised a brilliant, never-before-tried scheme that’s sure to reduce these creatures stinky, and oh so dangerous farts and belches.
from childrenshealthdefense.org:
Denmark is set to become the first country in the world to tax farmers for the greenhouse gasses emitted by their livestock, in a deal reached June 24 between the Danish government and representatives of the farming industry and unions.
The tax, which specifically targets methane emissions by cows, pigs and sheep, will take effect in 2030, pending final approval by the Danish Parliament, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
Ingenious!
Obviously, taxing the farmers is the way to go. Since they have no control over the emitted gasses of their livestock, could there be a better plan? Hardly.
Beginning in 2030, farmers will be required to pay a tax of 300 kroner (approximately $43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent. This will increase to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035. After a 60% tax deduction, the respective amounts will be 120 kroner ($17.30) and 300 kroner.
CNN, quoting Denmark’s “green think tank” Concito, reported that Danish dairy cows emit, on average, 5.6 tonnes (6.2 U.S. tons) of CO2-equivalent emissions per year. This would result in a tax of 672 kroner per cow ($96) in 2030 and 1,680 kroner ($241) in 2035.
You can almost smell the air getting cleaner, right?
Tax will encourage farmers ‘to look for solutions to reduce emissions’
Proponents of the tax emphasized that Denmark is the first country to enact such a policy, characterizing it as a step toward greater environmental sustainability.
“We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,” Bruus said.
“We are investing billions in the biggest transformation of the Danish landscape in recent times,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen in a statement quoted by CNN. “At the same time, we will be the first country in the world with a (carbon) tax on agriculture.”
Wait…wuuut?
I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am that their plan doesn’t do a bloody thing to reduce the farting. It’s all on the backs of the farmers. Well, as long as it gets them to quit farming, kill off their livestock, and look for a better life in a 15-minute city, then it’s pretty much a genius plan.
Sadly, there’s always some ‘unbelievers’ out there:
Dutch attorney and activist Meike Terhorst told The Defender:
“I think the measures have nothing to do with sustainability but with power. A group of companies, the so-called globalists/banks/investors, such as the WEF, work together with governments, such as the G20, and together they can force the small farmers off their lands.”
Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, said small farms will bear the brunt of the new tax.
“Small farmers will be the first to go, and their land will most likely be used to house a variety of so-called ‘green initiatives,’ such as fake meat labs, acres of solar panels and wind turbines as far as the eye can see, new AI data centers that require tons of water, energy and land, and possibly even nuclear power plants to power those data centers,” he said.
Similarly, Terhorst said the goal is to “close down the small farmers as part of the ‘Agenda 2030’ — U.N. SDGs — or the corporate takeover agenda.”
Terhorst said this agenda aims “to ensure that small farmers are to be removed from the land and replaced by ‘digital’ farming” — meaning “replacing meat and milk with factory-made insect food or milk and lab-grown meat.”
Critics also questioned claims that policies like carbon taxation help promote “sustainability.”
“When unelected globalists at the WEF and the U.N. talk about sustainability, they don’t mean self-sustainability for the individual. They don’t want that at all. They want to ensure sustainable control, influence and power for themselves for decades to come,” Hinchliffe said, adding:
“As I see it, the real goal here is to take control of prime agricultural land and to tax farmers out of existence. Once the taxes get too expensive and the farmers can’t keep up, that’s when public-private entities swoop in to take control of the land.
“If they really believed that flatulent farm animals were responsible for the weather, they would just plant more trees to absorb the carbon, and their imaginary crisis would be solved, but they’re not doing that because what they’re really after are land grabs, money, and total control of our food systems.” (full article)
These climate change blasphemers just don’t understand the importance of becoming climate neutral…by 2030, 2040, 2045, or whenever.
Of course neither do these shysters pushing their climate neutral bullshit. They just make money from the horseshit they spew about.
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 