Taking Greenpeace here to mean representative of the Green movement we need to note that the basic idea here is to starve us all. The Monbiot, Greenpeace, Ecologist, green and Green idea is that the mass of humanity die off.
How do we know this? Because they all advocate a policy, a plan, which would mean we all starve. For they do all insist that we’ve got to stop industrial agriculture and return to the purely organic methods of farming of the Middle Ages. Which, as you won’t personally recall but might have read about, were not fun times.
But, goes a reasonable enough argument, that’s centuries ago. We can do it better now. To which one answer is yes, we do do it better. That’s what industrial agriculture is, doing farming better than they did in the Middle Ages. Another is that someone tried this out for us. Really did try to switch over to organic agriculture, none of those nasty pesticides or fertilisers.
In April 2021, the Sri Lankan government imposed a ban on the import and use of conventional agricultural chemicals (both fertilizers & pesticides) and actively promoted the use of organic inputs in national agriculture. The move contributed to a reduction in yield and led to a surge in food prices across the country.
Well, a little reduction in yield might be fine enough in return for the increase in nature. You know, maybe, possibly, an idea to be weighed at least. We could, perhaps, kill a little more wildlife, expand the area we farm instead of leaving as wilderness and be no worse off. Possibly. So, what was the actual result?
As a result, Sri Lankan farmers noted that they ‘lost’ more than half of their normal crop yield (-54%) during the 2021 MAHA season. A staggering 95% or higher yield reduction was registered by Sri Lankan rice, maize, tea and Upcountry as well as Low-country vegetable farmers.
Oh. A fairly standard SE Asian peasant diet is rice and vegetables. So, that’s 95% of the peasants dead then. Which, you know, it’s a bit of a cost, isn’t it? Possibly too high a cost for following the plans of western haute bourgeois like Greenpeace, Monbiot, The Ecologist et al? Sure, sure, some of them at some times might have said that the real problem is just too many damn people but even for them the immediate elimination of 95% of brown peasants might not be something they’d be willing to say publicly.
Now, this little survey was undertaken - or done with funding from perhaps - an org containing the big seed companies etc. So, possibly not wholly and totally uninterested science here. And yet I’ve been able to find absolutely no defences at all of the performance of Sri Lankan agriculture in this shift to organic. A bit of mumbling that perhaps it shouldn’t have been done quite so quick maybe but. All those Greens and greens would be shrieking from the rooftops if there was even the one decent outcome from the experiment. That they’re all staring at their shoes and hoping no one mentions it does show that there wasn’t even one single good outcome. Hasn’t made any of them change their minds of course. That is, they still want to kill us all.
So, someone’s tried all organic. Doesn’t work, tried for any length of time it would starve us all. So, let’s not do that then. We’ve also now got a useful test for idiocy. Those recommending all organic - except as a way to gouge haute bourgeois idiots in Waitrose with higher prices for a chicken - simply are idiots precisely because this has been tried and doesn’t work.
There is one lovely little detail here. The one form of agriculture that wouldn’t be particularly affected by a move to totally organic is pasture fed beef. Which means there would still be hamburgers and steaks for the survivors - no doubt a great comfort to Monbiot, Greenpeace, The Ecologist and so on.
Indeed so. In fact, much of Ireland is too boggy even for sheep, isn't it?
Yes except they're trying another tactic on that - guilt tripping us on climate. Over here in Ireland "Climate Change Advisory Council " asks government to incentivise farmers to switch and (brainwash) inform the public to switch to "more sustainable " diet (for the planet allegedly, not the health of persons) which would involve eating less meat. Trouble is Ireland's climate and land is ideal for pastoral, much of it is marginal for plant crops, except er the potato, and we know how that ended.