What terror you may ask? WWIII? Another disease plague requiring us to lockdown, mask up, vaccine up, and destroy anybody who objects to all that?

No, but it is something related.

Net Zero.

The use of the word implies that Green House Gas (GHG) emissions might still occur but they’ll be offset by schemes that will produce no such emissions or perhaps even reduce them.

In reality the Zero Emissions sources of energy are so unreliable that they require massive backup from GHG emission-producing sources. The result is Germany increasing its CO2 emissions even as it pushes for more wind farms – because they need coal-fired power stations to back them up when they’re producing little or nothing. Dumping their nuclear power stations didn’t help. Even California has decided to keep its last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, open for years longer than they originally wanted because it produces 10% of the State’s electricity.

But if anything, the situation in agriculture is looking to be worse, simply because the anti-farming lobby is drawing on more than the Global Warming strand, because the numbers of producers are relatively small, and because the effects are not quite as immediate as a blackout.

Although Sri Lanka stands as a counterpoint.

But now there is this news from Ireland:

Leaked documents suggest the Irish government is planning to cull 65,000 cows a year for the next three years, at a cost of 200million euros a year, to meet its climate targets…The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows.

Voluntary? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.. That’s the deal in Holland, where a compulsory purchase of your farm by the government awaits those who reject its generous offers to buy it. It’ll be the same in Ireland. Nothing about government mandates is voluntary and even more so when they’re connected to an international treaty that a nation has signed up to.

And especially when you have the World Economic Forum (WEF) fully backing this and its founder, Klaus Schwab, openly boasting about how they’ve “penetrated the cabinets” of nearly every major government worldwide. As none other than The Telegraph said:

 It seems increasingly clear that there is an eco-modernist agenda to do away with conventional meat altogether. It’s not just the Extinction Rebellion mob, either; many of the world’s politicians are on board.

And Milk. And much else. Here in New Zealand we’re slowly wiping out sheep and cattle farming with our fabulous Carbon Credit Harvesting rules that have seen many large farms purchased to be buried in pines. Wonder how many of our MP’s are invested in these?

But there will be plant-based food – and bugs.

The official World Economic Forum line is that eating meat is accelerating the effects of Climate Change. Therefore, to fix ‘the climate’ humans need to reduce their consumption of meat and replace it with a climate-friendly substitute. There are a few on offer, but the favourite is insect protein.

Oh, and that Sri Lankan disaster? Well, guess what? When the smoke cleared, a World Economic Forum member, Ranil Wickremesinghe, assumed power. The country was forced to look to the IMF for a bailout, putting its national infrastructure up as collateral, and austerity measures ensued.

As Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel said during the GFC of 2008/2009:

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

A year ago I took some solace in the uselessness of this government’s Global Warming mitigation efforts, and in that article I contrasted this with examples of the extreme measures that would have to be taken, starting with the USA, if these people were serious:

As his first act as president, Inslee declared a national climate emergency. As his second, he announced national carbon rationing. Until further notice, consumers were limited to one tank of gas per month. Based on time of year and regional climates, natural gas and heating oil deliveries to households were cut by as much as 60%. Utilities were directed to submit plans within the month to cut total electricity generation by 40% and to optimize their existing generation mix to use as little fossil generation as possible.

In the world of political realities such things cannot be done immediately, no matter how much the word “crisis” is screamed.

But they can be done gradually, steadily. Sure, as such they probably won’t do a damned thing to really reduce GHG emissions, certainly not to the degree required by the IPCC and “Net Zero”.

But that’s not really the point any longer.

I have been criticised on this forum for using the word “traitor” to describe these leaders, whether politicians or activists, because of the harshness of trial and punishment that implies. But that is what they are and the only question is how poor and hungry people will have to get to start treating them as traitors.