The Christian Democrats see the writing on the wall and have abandoned a rigid commitment to the controversial nitrogen reduction policies. A respite for the Dutch farmers?
They are noticing (Christian Democrats) that if they do not meet at some point, they will be deemed useless and with them the so-called hierarchical system. I think protests, though with some issues, unavoidable due to the nature of Western approaches, still show how useless the political class is, and how mediocre they are. This is a step forward, but I suspect more to come in Spring after harsh Fall and Winter for the people, and hopefully some real organizing.
Exactly. In a well-functioning, genuinely representative system, whether parliamentary or not, protests wouldn't be necessary. We don't live under such a system, far from it. I too expect protests to continue, be it farmers or other segments of the population.
It would appear that animal husbandry releases a certain amount of nitrogen into the air, apparently in the form of ammonia. This is captured by rainfall and accumulates in the nearby land. For agricultural land, this is a Good Thing. For nearby nature reserves that are vulnerable, this is a Bad Thing. There is a an EU wide initiative to combat this, called Natura 2000: https://presearch.com/search?q=eu%20natura%202000
There would be constructive ways to deal with this, which might include gradual adjustments in modern farming techniques, various of which have been documented. But the approach taken by the Dutch government is heavy-handed and technocratic, propelled by an environmental movement which has been captured by dangerous zealots and ideologues with creepy Malthusian ideas about Man and Nature. They somehow think that everything will be fine if we simply deindustrialize. Given that we are looking the real potential for food shortages during the coming year, such efforts are the height of folly. Fortunately people seem to be slowly waking up to the madness.
Thanks, fabulous, magical; because to me this is part of the inevitably increasingly infinite flow to which we all belong (merely by imagining and making this realisation); the energies that cannot be conveyed easily in words nor perhaps at all. Time and energies, gravity and much else we are taught, is reality only when we believe it to be so. And so (for me, and we are each unique, while also one with everything), when we step into being who and how and what we want to be, which is also for many of us what we fear most, then magic really starts to amplify. That's the best I can do at the moment. Ripples and seeds. Energy is very interesting, and free. Thanks and love to all :)
They are noticing (Christian Democrats) that if they do not meet at some point, they will be deemed useless and with them the so-called hierarchical system. I think protests, though with some issues, unavoidable due to the nature of Western approaches, still show how useless the political class is, and how mediocre they are. This is a step forward, but I suspect more to come in Spring after harsh Fall and Winter for the people, and hopefully some real organizing.
Exactly. In a well-functioning, genuinely representative system, whether parliamentary or not, protests wouldn't be necessary. We don't live under such a system, far from it. I too expect protests to continue, be it farmers or other segments of the population.
I do not understand. Are they trying to reduce nitrogen? Where? In the soil? In the air? To what end?
It would appear that animal husbandry releases a certain amount of nitrogen into the air, apparently in the form of ammonia. This is captured by rainfall and accumulates in the nearby land. For agricultural land, this is a Good Thing. For nearby nature reserves that are vulnerable, this is a Bad Thing. There is a an EU wide initiative to combat this, called Natura 2000: https://presearch.com/search?q=eu%20natura%202000
There would be constructive ways to deal with this, which might include gradual adjustments in modern farming techniques, various of which have been documented. But the approach taken by the Dutch government is heavy-handed and technocratic, propelled by an environmental movement which has been captured by dangerous zealots and ideologues with creepy Malthusian ideas about Man and Nature. They somehow think that everything will be fine if we simply deindustrialize. Given that we are looking the real potential for food shortages during the coming year, such efforts are the height of folly. Fortunately people seem to be slowly waking up to the madness.
Thanks, fabulous, magical; because to me this is part of the inevitably increasingly infinite flow to which we all belong (merely by imagining and making this realisation); the energies that cannot be conveyed easily in words nor perhaps at all. Time and energies, gravity and much else we are taught, is reality only when we believe it to be so. And so (for me, and we are each unique, while also one with everything), when we step into being who and how and what we want to be, which is also for many of us what we fear most, then magic really starts to amplify. That's the best I can do at the moment. Ripples and seeds. Energy is very interesting, and free. Thanks and love to all :)