EU split over fertilizer plants in poorer nations as food crisis bites

[livingston]

LUXEMBOURG, June 20 (Reuters) - The European Union is divided on how to help poorer nations fight a growing food crisis and address shortages of fertilisers caused by the war in Ukraine, with some fearing a plan to invest in plants in Africa would clash with EU green goals.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted a global food crisis and fears of worse to come because of a drop in grain exports from Ukraine and a spike in prices of chemical fertilisers, of which Russia and Belarus are major producers

At a summit of EU leaders later this week, the EU was planning a new initiative that would structurally decrease poorer nations' reliance on Russian fertilisers by helping them develop their own fertiliser plants

But at a meeting with EU envoys last week, the EU Commission explicitly opposed the text, warning that supporting fertiliser production in developing nations would be inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies, officials said.

The production of chemical fertilisers has a big impact on the environment and requires large amounts of energy. However they are crucially effective in boosting agriculture output.

EU split over fertiliser plants in poorer nations as food crisis bites

The European Union is divided on how to help poorer nations fight a growing food crisis and address shortages of fertilisers caused by the war in Ukraine, with some fearing a plan to invest in plants in Africa would clash with EU green goals.

www.reuters.com

 

[livingston]

Europe Argues with Itself About Allowing Developing Countries to Make Their Own Fertilizer, EU Climate Agenda Does Not Align with Food Needs of Third-World​

Watch how this plays out in the global cleaving. Watch closely…​

The stresses of retaining climate ideology are beginning to surface in the EU and ‘western nations.’ The developing world needs fertilizer quickly, or their twice annual harvests will not produce enough to feed their population. However, the EU does not want the developing world to create their own fertilizer because it would mean using an energy source the EU no longer supports.

The result within the G7, G20, World Economic Forum, multinational corporations and EU government, is a debate over whether it is better for people to starve, or to allow developing countries to manufacture fertilizer to feed themselves. Some in the EU and western alliance say let the people die, climate is more important. Others, seem to be saying if they allow mass starvation just to retain their climate ideology, they may lose influence in the world. The debate rages on.
This is globalism and elitism in its full glory. Western politicians, along with multinational corporations, in control of global trade and finance are deciding who lives and who dies according to their climate change ideology. This is how important their carbon trading scheme is to them.

Europe Argues with Itself About Allowing Developing Countries to Make Their Own Fertilizer, EU Climate Agenda Does Not Align with Food Needs of Third-World - The Last Refuge

Watch how this plays out in the global cleaving. Watch closely… The stresses of retaining climate ideology are beginning to surface in the EU and ‘western nations.’ The developing world needs fertilizer quickly, or their twice annual harvests will not produce enough to feed their population...

theconservativetreehouse.com

 

[livingston]

From the comments section posted above

A Call for Honesty
June 27, 2022 5:56 pm


I want weep as I read the Letters from Zimbabwe blog by Cathy Buckle
Two weeks ago
Zimbabwe which was previously a breadbasket is now just bare shelves.
“Almost everything going into the supermarket trolley now is at least Z$500. Even a loaf of bread is just under that price. It’s all so absurd when the highest bank note here is Z$100 and you need five of them just to buy a loaf of bread. As usual I head to the maize meal shelf, Zimbabwe’s staple food, and for the third week in a row, there’s still none to buy, not a single bag.“
Now
“Two weeks ago a loaf of bread was Z$469, last week it went up to Z$640 and yesterday it was Z$825 in my home town.”
I would encourage all readers on this site to make this your regular source to keep up with what is happening in Southern Africa. President Biden’s address at the G7 was worthless – indeed if carried through will make life even harder for the poorest in Africa.

 

[fresch]

Population reduction

 

[Jmac00]

fortunately, or unfortunately, the world population is going to start going down, starting with the elite, and like Sri Lanka, people will start shooting the one at the top. The elite better move there fat happy asses to a military base, thats the only place they will be safe when the shooting starts

 

[livingston]

Just another example on how evil these folks are. Do we save the world from starving to death or do we meet our climate objectives. Now I did notice Europe will fire up their mothballed coal plants.

European countries begin to restart coal plants to conserve natural gas.​

Germany, which on Sunday said it will restart coal-fired plants as part of a broader plan to preserve natural gas. “That's bitter, but it’s almost necessary in this situation to reduce gas consumption,” Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck said, who is a member of the environmentalist Green party.
How we got here: Europe’s natural gas situation was already precarious because of its reliance on Russian energy exports, but the crisis deepened last week when Russian energy giant Gazprom slowed down flows in a pipeline that runs to Germany. Russia blamed a technical issue related to Canadian sanctions, but European countries say it’s economic warfare, plain and simple.
The supply crunch coming on top of an existing supply crunch has put other European countries on high alert. Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands are also eyeing coal to keep energy prices from spiraling out of control (they’re already near record highs).

European countries begin to restart coal plants to conserve natural gas.

For now, inflation concerns > environmental concerns.

www.morningbrew.com

Do you see the disconnect .... We cannot allow money to be lent to 3rd world countries to make nitrogen fertilizer because it would cause global warming ....
In the meantime we need to fire up our coal plants because our people will freeze. this winter.
Biden has a plan ...

Biden Pledges to Mitigate Third-World Food Shortages and Consequences of G7 Climate Policy, by Spending $200 Billion to Control Brown People Infrastructure and Communication​

Western leaders, specifically including the G7, have a serious problem. Their collective energy and economic policy, a chase for the climate change and corporate financial agenda, have created the downstream consequences of global food shortages and third-world instability. The non-industrial nations will now, once again, suffer as a direct result of Western ideology and arrogance.

To combat the pesky third-world pitch forks, today Joe Biden announced the U.S. will lead the G7 in a series of advanced spending measures intended to control how the pain inflicted by the industrialized nations will surface to the rest of the world. Western media must not let the suffering of the brown people become visible, lest people start to connect the dots and realize the G7 is an ideologically racist and exploitative enterprise.

To soften the reality of the brown people suffering, the leftist administration of Joe Biden will spend $200 billion to mitigate the damage. There are four aspects:

(1) To increase dependency and control the third-world population the G7 will finance a vaccine manufacturing facility in Senegal. The breeding of the brown people must be controlled – climate change policy demands it.

(2) To control the optics of the third-world complaining about it, the G7 will mobilize $335 million in private capital to control the communication systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The brown people must not discover the nature of their exploitation; and the citizens within the G7 nations must not find out their government is exploiting the brown people. Wouldn’t look good.

(3) The United States will spend $50 million over five years to support gender equity in the developing world increasing the friction between brown women and brown men, while ignoring cultural differences and forcing the social ideology of the West upon them. And finally….

(4) The G7, fearing third-world instability and anger from the brown people that could disrupt their supply chains, the U.S. and Western nations will now seek to increase their control of mining for mineral deposits needed for G7 batteries – and will fund more railroads and ports to export the critical material to the West more quickly.

Biden Pledges to Mitigate Third-World Food Shortages and Consequences of G7 Climate Policy, by Spending $200 Billion to Control Brown People Infrastructure and Communication - The Last Refuge

Western leaders, specifically including the G7, have a serious problem. Their collective energy and economic policy, a chase for the climate change and corporate financial agenda, have created the downstream consequences of global food shortages and third-world instability. The non-industrial...

theconservativetreehouse.com

This is Biden .. We need programs for gender equality... While they starve to death. This is the new world order in full focus.

Lets not forget Bill gates and his artificial lab grown food... You will see that in Africa first... Billions sent to Gates to promote his lab grown food .

 

[Saltwater60]

Not being political here but Joe Biden and his sanctions caused this. Any deaths should be laid at his feet. I’m not saying Russia/Putin isn’t a bad man, but the sanctions failed and now Russia is making more money than before selling oil and grain.

 

[livingston]

FARMERS FURIOUS! (Thousands More Joining The Protests)​

eating meat is unsustainable.. .. Is the goal folks...

 

[prambo]

This is a straight up genocide in 3rd world countries by the G7/G20/EMF.

More undeveloped/developing nations are making a move towards BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

Iran, Argentina interested in joining BRICS alliance

BRICS isn't exactly a bunch of "good guys" either.

China already has their hooks all over sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America - they are usually very predatory "deals" (loans) that leaves the smaller country totally screwed.

Regardless, this kind of neo-colonialist bullshit from the West is only because of the minerals needed in the completely fictional "electric future".

"...inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies,..."

The G7 scum could give a rat's ass what happens to some small village in the bush.

 

[kev74]

Any word on why one or more of the African countries can't pool resources to finance and build their own fertilizer production facility instead of waiting for Europe to do it for them?

 

[livingston]

Any word on why one or more of the African countries can't pool resources to finance and build their own fertilizer production facility instead of waiting for Europe to do it for them?

Money

This is a straight up genocide in 3rd world countries by the G7/G20/EMF.

More undeveloped/developing nations are making a move towards BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

Iran, Argentina interested in joining BRICS alliance

BRICS isn't exactly a bunch of "good guys" either.

China already has their hooks all over sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America - they are usually very predatory "deals" (loans) that leaves the smaller country totally screwed.

Regardless, this kind of neo-colonialist bullshit from the West is only because of the minerals needed in the completely fictional "electric future".

"...inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies,..."

The G7 scum could give a rat's ass what happens to some small village in the bush.

China hoards over half the world's grain, pushing up global prices​

Testy ties with U.S. and Australia could be prodding China to boost food reserves

China hoards over half the world's grain, pushing up global prices

Testy ties with U.S. and Australia could be prodding China to boost food reserves

asia.nikkei.com

Now they have a lot of leverage over countries they want to influence.....Like most of Africa..

 

[Saltwater60]

Any word on why one or more of the African countries can't pool resources to finance and build their own fertilizer production facility instead of waiting for Europe to do it for them?

They are environmentally friendly.

 

[fresch]

Any word on why one or more of the African countries can't pool resources to finance and build their own fertilizer production facility instead of waiting for Europe to do it for them?

That would be corruption.
Even if the U.S. installed them.

 

[Grimscale]

fortunately, or unfortunately, the world population is going to start going down, starting with the elite, and like Sri Lanka, people will start shooting the one at the top. The elite better move there fat happy asses to a military base, thats the only place they will be safe when the shooting starts

As long as there is one other person in there with the "elite" they are not safe.

We're seeing the 21st Century versions of "let them eat cake" being re-enacted in many countries. It's just a matter of time before the desperate start "going where the food is".