Starving for the Sake of the Planet

Do they want us all to starve and freeze? Because there seems to be little other plausible explanation for the political and business elite’s fanatical headlong rush to switch to solar and wind. Like socialism, they assure us that it will work this time.

Also like socialism, it’s a disaster wherever it’s actually tried.

The latest disaster stories are coming, naturally, from Europe. If it’s not British pensioners freezing during winter because they can’t afford the spiralling cost of electricity, it’s Germany rationing power because they simply can’t burn enough trees to make up for the coal and nuclear plants they shut down.

Now, farmers in Norway are ploughing crops back into the field because they can’t afford the electricity to store them.

Vegetable farmer Per Odd Gjestvang shakes his head. He stands and looks at the harvest-ready leeks that are harrowed in his field at Skreia in Ostre Toten.

Around 29 tonnes of leeks are lost. It has a gross value of around 700,000.

The leeks had normally been driven to a cold storage, so that this winter they would be found in Norwegian vegetable counters. But the math simply doesn’t dawn on the farmer.

With today’s electricity prices, Gjestvang does not see it as financially viable to spend money on storing the vegetables.

“In that case, it will be a pure loss project,” he says.

That’s even with subsidised electricity.

Another farmer in in Ostre Toten, Norway’s largest producer of vegetables, is considering storing vegetables in the field for as long as possible.

The problem with such a scheme is that it is very exposed to weather and wind, and involves a lot of wastage. If they have bad luck, the crop can be destroyed.

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Other Norwegian farmers are destroying up to 150 acres of carrots.

“Now we use twice as much electricity as we earn on carrots a month. And that’s before we subtract the cost of sowing and producing carrots. Then it doesn’t go around bringing them up. It’s simple mathematics,” says Sigbjorn Skjorestad.

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Across the border in Sweden, things aren’t much better for tomato growers.

Nordic Greens Trelleborg is Sweden’s largest tomato producer with customers such as Ica, Coop and Lidl. During the summer, they accounted for 60 percent of Swedish tomatoes.

But this winter and spring there will be no Swedish tomatoes from the company. Due to the high electricity prices, Nordic Greens cancels winter production.

“It’s never happened before. There have never been such high electricity prices in Sweden, says Mindaugas Krasauskas, site manager at Nordic Greens Trelleborg.

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And that’s just the start of the Climate Cult madness sweeping Europe. The Netherlands has been gripped by months of protests from farmers and their supporters, after the government ordered mass culling of herds, and other restrictions on food production, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Belgium is considering similar bans and restrictions.

New Zealand wants a climate tax on cows.

We probably wouldn’t even have this energy crisis right now if we didn’t listen to the climate change fanatics in the first place. In Sweden, the Green party has been pushing hard to shut down our nuclear power plants.

Over the last few years Sweden has shut down multiple nuclear power plants and now we are seeing crazy electricity prices.

Peter Sweden

It’s enough to make you think they’re doing it all on purpose. But surely not…