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Unintended consequences....For decades, the Left has consistently chosen its own assumption of what is good for the environment over the health of humans.
Sri Lanka is facing a food crisis of crippling proportions after trying to convert the entire country over to organic farming. Last year, the government made a sudden and rash decision to ban foreign-made chemical fertilizers and pesticides after deeming them unhealthy to the population. There was little evidence to back up this assertion, and no thought was made as to the impact on farmers who without warning had to adapt to organic agriculture.
As one might imagine, the results were catastrophic. Crop yields for the country’s principal agricultural exports crashed, food prices spiked, and the economy went into a tailspin. The program was halted after only seven months, but it may take several years before Sri Lanka’s agricultural industry returns to its previous level of output.
Wind turbines can be farmed around to some extent, but not solar fields. The amount of land being gobbled up by these unpredictable energy sources is not worth potentially starving millions of people. Wisconsin Representative Tom Tiffany recently introduced the Future Agriculture Retention and Management (FARM) Act to reverse the trend of taxpayer-funded energy schemes that gobble up valuable farmland for wind and solar installations.
Sri Lanka is facing a food crisis of crippling proportions after trying to convert the entire country over to organic farming. Last year, the government made a sudden and rash decision to ban foreign-made chemical fertilizers and pesticides after deeming them unhealthy to the population. There was little evidence to back up this assertion, and no thought was made as to the impact on farmers who without warning had to adapt to organic agriculture.
As one might imagine, the results were catastrophic. Crop yields for the country’s principal agricultural exports crashed, food prices spiked, and the economy went into a tailspin. The program was halted after only seven months, but it may take several years before Sri Lanka’s agricultural industry returns to its previous level of output.
Wind turbines can be farmed around to some extent, but not solar fields. The amount of land being gobbled up by these unpredictable energy sources is not worth potentially starving millions of people. Wisconsin Representative Tom Tiffany recently introduced the Future Agriculture Retention and Management (FARM) Act to reverse the trend of taxpayer-funded energy schemes that gobble up valuable farmland for wind and solar installations.
Going Green Kills People
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Organic farming: taking land that could feed 20,000 people and using it to feed 2,000. It's brilliant. As brilliant as converting farm land into solar farms. Tons of unusable land in my area, but they won't put solar and wind in those areas because "it's pretty and you'll ruin the view" and "where will we hike?", so they demo farm land for them. Then they bitch about the cost of produce.
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My wife and I were sent numerous letter a couple of years ago, asking us to lease our 59 acres of farmland to pu up solar panels. Over the course of 10 years we could have made about 1.25 Mil. Needless to say, corn and soy beans are still being grown, instead of solar panels. And the same goes for my sister-in-laws farm land. We understand the importance of farmland.
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