The Highwire with Del Bigtree - FARMERS ON THE FRONTLINE

Episode Date: August 6, 2022

Farmers around the world are facing the full weight of the globalists climate Agenda 2030. With its stated goal to eliminate world hunger, Agenda 2030 is rapidly working to devastate global farming with fertilizer cuts aimed at farmers in the middle of an impending, man-made, food crisis. The timing couldn’t be worse.#CanadianFarmers #Agenda2030 #FoodCrisis #FertilizerShortageBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

We covered the Netherlands about two weeks ago. Those farmers were up in arms because of a climate push that the government was doing. They wanted them to have a large percentage of emissions from fertilizers cut, which meant getting rid of livestock. And so we're seeing that same push here in Canada with Trudeau and his administration. And what's happening in Canada, this just last week, and now it's kind of running really fast. Here's the headline. Farmers feel ignored as Trudeau government pushes them to reduce admissions.

This is emissions of nitrous oxide fertilizer. So when they put fertilizer on the ground, it releases this. And then also with the manure and the urine from cows, that's releasing that as well. And so it says in the article here, there was no prior consultation. There has been no modeling or analysis provided to explain this 30% target. It appears to have been pulled out of thin air, one industry source said. In fact, the reduction target wasn't even developed by Agriculture Canada. It was the work of environmental and climate change, Canada, which is,

why neither farmer nor industry groups were consulted. And sure enough, days after that, the headlines look like this. As they did in the Netherlands, Trudeau Fertilizer Emissions, Plans, Sparks, backlash from farmers and provinces. So we have Alberta, we have Edmington, we have Ottawa. There's some footage of farmers protesting. We have semis, basically people, they're waving both flags in unison. We have the Netherlands flag.

We have the Canadian flag. And people are not going to have this. And you can see them against stuff. stopping up cities, stopping up roadways, just like they're doing in the Netherlands. A lot of people are not happy with this. Really, first and foremost, we have a lot of the administrators, government officials. And this was in Alberta and Saskatchewan. They put out a joint statement.

Governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta disappointed in federal target for fertilizer emissions reductions. And they say in here, quote, this has been the most expensive crop anyone has put in following a very difficult year on the prairies. Alberta Minister of Agriculture, Nate Horner said, the world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The federal government needs to display that they understand this. They owe it to our producers. So remember, this is the agenda 2030. This is trying to get to net zero. And number one, the number one tenant of agenda 2030 is end world hunger. So we're kind of scratching our head here by saying that, you know, this global food shortage, people are looking at Canada for this. Canada's cutting its

farmers. Now, this has been a conversation that's been going around in the background for a couple of years. Will they do this? Will the government put these cuts in? And this is in 2021, the Western Canadian wheat growers association. They have, they put this newsletter out. Analysis of proposed fertilizer emissions reductions will devastate Canadian farmers. They did an analysis and they said, if Canada adopts the EU model, which it now has, the potential economic impact of reduced fertilizer use would be devastating to Canadian farmers. The calculations show that by 2030, the prairie province, will have the following losses. Alberta, $2.95 billion, Saskatchewan, $4.61 billion, Manitoba, $1.58 billion. And this is losses to their corn and spring wheat and canola, just devastating, devastating losses. And who is really speaking up? Well, we have these industry groups speaking up.

We have some members here and there, but we have a member of the Canadian Parliament. She also has a master's degree in environmental studies and a law degree, Leslyn Lewis. She's been doing local talks to really raise the alarm and try to tell people what they're signing on to for this and what net zero actually is and what it looks like. Take a listen. This whole net zero is a nobody has ever asked to define net zero and that's what the farmers are fighting over right now because the government of Holland and

Sri Lanka and here has defined net zero and I'm going to give you an example you eat a piece of steak, that steak, the carbon footprint is calculated by every single thing that that cattle consumed up until you ate it and then the fat that you ate it. That's what the carbon footprint is. And so the nitrogen in the soil, the feed, the transportation of the feed, everything is calculated. And then they do an equation and then they say it's not sustainable. And the problem is that even for agricultural production, where farmers have gone to even zero tillage and has invested in technology, and they thought that that would have been enough.

And that's what the government in Holland said, that would have been enough. Then they changed the rules and they said, no, it's not enough. All that money you invested, I'm sorry, it still doesn't meet net zero. And that's the problem. a net zero calculation is almost like, it's sorcery almost, because when you look at an electric car and if you're going to do a net zero calculation on an electric car and you look at a coal mine or even a computer too, a coal bomb mine or a lithium mine and you look at the degradation of that and then you look at the fact that five-year-old African children are working

in those mines and you then you look at the battery in an electric car and how it gets disposed of afterwards and the years that it would take to break down that battery and you do a carbon footprint on that you would see that that is far more damaging than agriculture but it's agriculture what is being attacked and that's why i believe that there's an agenda she makes such a good point here. And again, I want to tell everybody to just be to totally honest, I grew up a progressive liberal from Boulder, Colorado. I still consider myself an environmentalist in the old sense of the word, which I want clean air, I want clean water, I want, you know, healthy, clean food for my children. I want all, you know, a world where my kids can fish and eat the fish and not have to be

totally filled with poisons, toxic chemicals, and heavy metals. So I believe in that. But the point she's making is a good one. Like you are just picking and choosing. I said the last time we talked about this fertilizer shortage, all right, I get there some issues there, but where's the discussion of glyphosate? How about stop spraying this deadly chemical that causes non-hospital inflammation? They're not saying that. So she's right. There's an agenda. This isn't really about health or a healthy environment. You're all lying. And then she talks about, you know, the electric cars. I'm not against trying to create new ways to move things. I think the electric car is very interesting, but we should be looking at the batteries. And my thing is this, you know,

ultimately, you have a battery driven car and we're, I'm in Texas. We have, we have a serious, you know, drought. We have heat issues in Arizona, even in the UK, California, all these places where, what are they saying? You know what? Limit the use, your electrical use. You got to limit the use of your air conditioners. We don't want to blow the grid. But by the way, go out and put, you know, a million electric cars on our grid. It makes absolutely no sense. These people aren't making any sense. And she makes some great points in there. And I looked into the lithium part about the batteries. And Chile has one of the world's largest, if not the world's largest lithium reserves. And they're extracted through this method. It's a water intensive method of evaporation of the brines

found beneath the salt flats of something called the Atta Kama Desert Salt Flats. And I think we have an image of this. I had sent over. And there's brine pools and processing areas. And there's There's a picture of it right there. And so this is basically in a desert. And what is it doing? And they need a lot of water to do this. And they're using the local water to do these things. And what has that done is headline here, lithium mining is leaving Chile's indigenous communities high and dry, literally.

And it's a really interesting article read there. The quotes are really harrowing quotes of just people having to bottle in water now and just wait for trucks to deliver their water because the local water is being used for this. But then it reminds me of fracking, by the way. Like I remember at, like I voted for President Obama. You know, I was really excited. I was in the environment. And, oh, the great idea there was fracking. It's like fracking at natural gas and all these things.

Obama says fracking can be a bridge to clean energy future. Well, it wasn't that simple, as the Washington Post pointed out. And what do we see? We saw his vice president saying during the election, I'm going to stop all fracking. And that's a terrible idea. You know, we're destroying the environment. We're destroying all the water. being used to frack, all things that are true.

But guess who's stupid idea that was? So great idea yesterday, terrible idea today. This is what we're talking about. Back seeing, great idea today, terrible idea tomorrow. I mean, I'm, this is again, these people are making terrible, terrible decisions, yet they're enforcing them, they're pushing them upon us without a place to go. Right. And what Lesland Lewis said about child labor, I thought, wow, that's really sounds like an

explosive claim she just made. And I looked into that. So they make these batteries, not only do you need lithium, but you need cobalt. And here's something written up from Amnesty International. This was written up several years ago, but exposed child labor behind smartphones and electric car batteries. And it said in 2014, approximately 40,000 children worked in mines across Southern Democratic Republic of Congo, many of them mining coal, according to UNICEF. Now, that was then. We know that the globe, the slowdown has killed economies.

So how many of these kids are working just to put food in their mouths and their families? mouse right now. But don't worry, the World Economic Forum has a solution, Dell, and they just published it on their own website. And here it is, three circular economy approaches to reduce demand for critical metals as we make this transition. What's number one? Go from owning to using. Another word to say that, go from owning to renting. Number two and three are basically just use old stuff and repair it. So, you know, while we climb into our private jets and laugh at you from our gigantic ships out in the ocean. Go ahead and reduce yourself down to all the rusted things you had.

And if you need something nice than that, we'll rent it to you for a little while. Right. And now let's look at the other countries. So Netherlands, we're going to keep an update on this because this is, again, rolling stories. As we continue to report on this, more countries are signing on to these climate to reductions and emissions. This was written in their paper in the Netherlands. It was translated.

We posted and broke it at the high wire here. This is the headline Dutch Ministry of Finance report. 11,200 farmers must stop 17,600, reduced livestock by third to a half. This was an internal document by the Minister of Finance that was forced into the public by the members of Parliament requesting this. And this is basically what it said. This was translated. The current nitrogen strategy of the cabinet will mean according to the calculations

of the Ministry of Finance that 11,200 farmer businesses must be stopped in another 17,600 farmers will have to significantly reduce their livestock by a third to almost a half. The calculations were published on Wednesday afternoon to show how hard the agricultural sector, the total of 40,000 to 50,000 farmers with cattle, is affected by the nitrogen fertilizer plans of the cabinet. So again, just massive reductions already on the back of a global downturn from COVID, food shortages, we have these. And the same thing's happening in the UK.

You've got to start scratching your head when you read these headlines. British farmers are being offered a lump sum payment to leave the industry, but at what cost to agriculture? And this is the UK's own website. Here it is right here. How to apply for a lump sum payment to leave or retire from farming. And it goes on to say, before you receive the lump sum payment, you must do all of the following. Transfer your agriculture land to England, but you can keep up to five hectares or plant it with trees under a woodland creation scheme. Transfer grazing and pennage rights you have on common land in England where required give up surrender, your English BP, entitlements. So basically, get the heck out of here because, you know, the fruit is another big deal. Maybe if you change your mind in the future, we'll rent it back to you. I mean, like,

the whole thing is so disturbing. The farmers are the problem. Farmers are. Not, you know, not all of the industries that are tracking us and tracing us or causing problems around the world or starting wards. It's the farmers. Those people that are out there digging the dirt, bringing us our food. And where's our food going to come from? And like, Like you said, the whole place to stop global hunger, yet the very people saying that are literally paying people to shut down their farms so that they don't grow anything. Right. Or under attack, man.

I mean, I don't know how else to see it by some really, really stupid, sinister, dark, strange, I don't even know how to call it. I can't even put them people. Entities. Yeah. And Dell, one of the things I found interesting, you and I talked about this is, Just a couple months ago, we were reporting on the war in Ukraine and Russia causing a fertilizer slowdown.

We're going through this. We're unpacking this. But it's really important for people to be realistic about what possibly might be happening here. So I pulled some more data points on this story as it's moving forward and developing. So this is out of Bloomberg talking about Russian fertilizer. So Russia joltz global fertilizer market by seeking end to exports. So the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Russia is urged their Russian fertilized producers cut volumes to farmers due to the delivery issues because of what's happening there.

And let's look at one of the images from this article here, just to give an idea. So here we have Russia is 9 million metric tons. Belarus is 8 million metric tons. Together, 17 metric tons of potash. It's the fertilizer that they are exporting. Interestingly enough, at the bottom there, Brazil is the world's largest importer of fertilizer. And so they're one of the, they lead the globe in exports of soybeans, coffee, sugar. So that's on the docket too.

As they do not get these fertilizers coming in, the exports of soybeans, coffee, and sugar are, you know, people are keeping an eye on that as expected to go up as well because this is all interconnected in this food chain. Wow. You know, it's really weird to look at that. now under the circumstances. We talked about Sri Lanka is now revolting because they can't use fertilizer. They're having to get rid of cattle. We're talking about the Netherlands. You know, we're looking at Canada now. All of those countries are basically saying to farmers, we are not going to allow you by law to use the amount of fertilizer. You've got to reduce nitrogen. Yet, as you pointed out, we were reporting here in America, there was no fertilizer available. Oh, there's a shortage. You know,

so farmers are going to have to find another way to grow because we have a shortage of the stuff coming out of Russia. I mean, but you realize it all suits the same agenda, right? It all suits the agenda of reducing nitrogen. And I mean, you really have to ask yourself, is this just two sides of the same point or the exact same story? In the countries where you don't have freedom, where you don't have a First Amendment or a Second Amendment, we're just going to tell you straight up, we're denying you the use of fertilizer. You're not going to get to use it because we signed on with Klaus Schwab, and we're going to reduce it by 30% or what have you.

But in the United States of America, where you have a First Amendment right, and you might just own a gun, we're probably not going to just try to tell you what to do. We're just going to lie to you. We're all out of fertilizer. There's none available. You can't get to it,

so you're going to have to figure out another way to farm. I mean, it really makes you wonder if we're just in America, we just be lied to. We're in other countries that don't have our same freedoms. They tell them the truth because there's nothing they can do about it. I don't know. Right.

Very suspicious. Same results. Either way. Reduction in fertilizer. It seems like the same story we were given with the gasoline shortage. That's Russia's fault. But at the same time, they're coming out on the other side of the mouth and saying, this is a great, great transition to electric cars that we've been waiting for forever.

So you've got to really start digging in these stories to find the truth. And hopefully we can present enough of the information to where we can find it together with the audience.