UN Trudeau pushes ahead on fertilizer reduction as provinces and farmers cry foul - Provincial agriculture ministers are expressing frustration with the Trudeau government over plans to effectively reduce fertilizer use by Canada’s farmers in the name of fighting climate change.

Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food, speaks during a press conference announcing announcing $16 million in funding for Living Laboratories in Alberta during an Alberta Beef Producer?s summit at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary on Thursday, July 14, 2022.

Provincial agriculture ministers are expressing frustration with the Trudeau government over plans to effectively reduce fertilizer use by Canada’s farmers in the name of fighting climate change.

A meeting of federal and provincial ministers wrapped up in Saskatoon on Friday with several provinces saying they are disappointed.

The federal government is looking to impose a requirement to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers saying it is a greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. While the Trudeau government says they want a 30% reduction in emissions, not fertilizer, farm producer groups say that at this point, reducing nitrous oxide emissions can’t be done without reducing fertilizer use.

“Provinces were disappointed by the lack of flexibility and consultation regarding the federal target,” Ontario’s Lisa Thompson said after the meeting.

Several provincial governments, and organizations representing farmers have asked for emissions reductions from fertilizer to be measured via intensity – how much food is produced compared to the amount of fertilizer used. The Trudeau government is demanding an absolute reduction in emissions, which farmers say will result in less food being produced at a time when the world can ill afford it.

“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,” Alberta minister Nate Horner said

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[Chad Holdenford]

This is what you get when you vote in a pampered faggot who has not a fucking clue about how the world actually works.

 

[Thiletonomics]

So what are the odds that this situation escalates into a Sri Lanka 2.0? Trudeau seems like the kind of guy that would push for the same idiotic policies about fertilizer, that were done in Sri Lanka, to obvious disastrous results.

 

[Lathe]

I swear the powers that be want to have food riots. It would give them an excuse to crush more personal freedoms.

 

[Xarpho]

Great, Canadians and """Canadians""" pouring across the northern border.

 

[Mr. Bung]

Climate change is the ultimate Chicken Little story and the world can't afford to "fight" it.

 

[Sithis]

So what are the odds that this situation escalates into a Sri Lanka 2.0? Trudeau seems like the kind of guy that would push for the same idiotic policies about fertilizer, that were done in Sri Lanka, to obvious disastrous results.

Kinda low because Canadians are absolutely cucked at this point.
Sri Lankans aren't placid fat westerners. Eastern cultures in general will do the hivemind shit for a while but once it breaks they really go all out.
At the most if Trudeau tried that shit we'd see another "honkening" protest that would similarly fizzle out as soon as the limp dick Castro wannabe threatened to take their money away.

People really need to wake up and realize there isn't much left to "lose" that they're not already planning to take from you if they're not stopped.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

This is what you get when you vote in a pampered faggot who has not a fucking clue about how the world actually works.

What's the problem? I mean, food comes from the grocery store right?

 

[wyattamurcan]

My sister moved to Canada and talks a lot about how woke it is, she formerly liked Turdeau before she moved there but after the "honkening" thing when that cooning faggot called a bunch of people "Nazis" and "terrorists" simply for protesting him, she's beginning to regret her decision moreso than she already did once she got to experience the wonders of socialized medicine.

 

[The Big O]

Lysenkoism is back with a vengeance.

 

[OutInTheRain]

The provinces should just refuse to enforce it. Kick out the RCMP, force his hand.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

I'll just go tell all the cows to stop making fertilizer.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

This is what you get when you vote in a pampered faggot who has not a fucking clue about how the world actually works.

He knows exactly how the world works. It works poorly and only he and his friends can fix it.

 

[Breadbassket]

Here is an article on Sri Lanka who is a country who went down a similar path regarding fertilizer with disastrous results.

In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong​

The ongoing catastrophe in Sri Lanka, though, shows why extending organic agriculture to the vast middle of the global bell curve, attempting to feed large urban populations with entirely organic production, cannot possibly succeed. A sustained shift to organic production nationally in Sri Lanka would, by most estimates, slash yields of every major crop in the country, including drops of 35 percent for rice, 50 percent for tea, 50 percent for corn, and 30 percent for coconut. The economics of such a transition are not just daunting; they are impossible.

Importing fertilizer is expensive, but importing rice is far more costly. Sri Lanka, meanwhile, is the world’s fourth largest tea exporter, with tea accounting for a lion’s share of the country’s agricultural exports, which in turn account for 70 percent of total export earnings.

There is no conceivable way that export sales to the higher value organic market could possibly make up for sharp falls in production. The entire global market for organic tea, for example, accounts for only about 0.5 percent of the global tea market. Sri Lanka’s tea production alone is larger than the entire global organic tea market. Flooding the organic market with most or all of Sri Lanka’s tea production, even after output fell by half due to lack of fertilizer, would almost certainly send global organic tea prices into a spiral.

The notion that Sri Lanka might ever replace synthetic fertilizers with domestically produced organic sources without catastrophic effects on its agricultural sector and environment is more ludicrous still. Five to seven times more animal manure would be necessary to deliver the same amount of nitrogen to Sri Lankan farms as was delivered by synthetic fertilizers in 2019. Even accounting for the overapplication of synthetic fertilizers, which is clearly a problem, and other uncertainties, there is almost certainly not enough land in the small island nation to produce that much organic fertilizer. Any effort to produce that much manure would require a vast expansion of livestock holdings, with all the additional environmental damage that would entail.

Simply put the yields from organic fertilizer are too inefficient for the demands of modern civilization. Thus completely shifting over to it instead of continuing to use nitrogen fertilizer will only invite calamity. The article I am citing does also mention tons of animal manure would be needed to reach the results of its synthetic counterparts, good luck doing that when Climate Zealots want to make "cows more sustainable" and governments give people unrealistic demands for emission reduction goals. In summary, all I can say is that don't be surprised if a few people start starving to death due to man-made famine.

 

[Kiwisee]

So what are the odds that this situation escalates into a Sri Lanka 2.0? Trudeau seems like the kind of guy that would push for the same idiotic policies about fertilizer, that were done in Sri Lanka, to obvious disastrous results.

At this rate? Anything is possible as he continues to test the patience of the population.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

Nitrogen is a zero sum game and artificial fertilizer helps with moving the needed nutrients to the farmland efficiently. Without it you are just moving less efficient matter(like manure) at a greater expense or sacrificing crop yields. Farming is far more advanced than what schools and media make it out to be.

 

[Bogliacci]

This is what you get when you vote in a pampered faggot who has not a fucking clue about how the world actually works.

These are his marching orders, its not like he's the one actually deciding wha they're going to do

 

[Retink]

So when will Canada go full Sri Lanka?

 

[Bogliacci]

So when will Canada go full Sri Lanka?

Itll take a few years, Sri lanka went the organic route like back in 18

 

[quaawaa]

Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and now Canada? Trudeau didn’t come up with this idea on his own, the WEF told him to do it.