What will the European Green Deal result in?

The war in Ukraine is terrible and has only losers. This war does make it clear to Western Europe how dependent it is now on countries outside Europe.

Energy, commodity and food prices have skyrocketed. Europe exports more grain than it imports. The grain from Ukraine and Russia mainly goes to Africa and the Middle East. Until now, food has been distributed over the earth on the world market. Now this food balance is disturbed by this war. Africa in particular cannot buy grain at these prices. In Egypt, the grain supply is only six weeks. The war in Ukraine has resulted in a refugee flow of millions of people to Europe. But the food shortages that mainly arise in Africa can turn into a food crisis with a refugee flow of millions of people.

Understanding how a plant grows
Despite these problems, 'our' European Commissioner Frans Timmermans continues with his Green Deal plans for the European Union. Politicians and environmental organizations still do not understand how a plant grows. Our minister of nitrogen believes that Belgium sets a good example by expropriating a number of farmers from their farms. Politicians believe that we should do the same in the Netherlands: clean up 30% of the farmers. Result: 30% less food production. Politicians and many environmental organizations still do not understand how a plant grows. They think that if we don't feed the earth, it will continue to grow the same.

Timmermans with his Green Deal is completely convinced of this, but does not understand that his plan will result in lower food production. His plan will therefore disrupt the food balance on the world market. Think of the earth as someone who has a million euros in his pocket. You can get by on 10.000 euros a year. Work, oh well, you enjoy the million euros. When you are 100 years later, the million euros are gone and you have nothing left to live on. The earth is just like that.

We do not return anything to farmers
There is a large buffer in the ground, created over millions of years. The farmer grows his products and sells his products to us people. He supplies us (humans) with all the minerals contained in his products. We, humans, do not return anything to our farmers. Our manure should have gone back to the farmer for the balance, but that is not happening. In order to grow his plants optimally, the farmers use fertilizer in the form of nitrogen, potash, lime and phosphate. In order to keep the million of the above example and not to be confronted with an empty soil stock after 100 years.

Furthermore, the areas that are not suitable for arable farming are used by the farmers for keeping livestock. Thus, these areas are also indirectly used to feed us humans. The arable farmer makes grateful use of the manure from our livestock to allow his crops to grow optimally. If we disturb this balance, the yields decrease very slowly, with the result that food production decreases. Very simple: farmers gone, food gone. We rich Europeans can buy it on the world market, but then we upset the balance on that market and several poor countries can no longer buy it. The fact that Europe wants to get rid of our farmers will degenerate into a global food crisis. Fortunately, various political parties in The Hague are starting to see this. Let's hope that our left-wing parties will understand this too.

Jaap Major
Low Zuthem

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