Cow manure as a legitimate form of protest …..
I confess to deep satisfaction in watching European farmers spraying cow manure onto diverse parliamentary buildings and offices.
Am I perverse?
No. Perhaps like you I am sick to death of politicians failing to represent the clear and unequivocal voices of their electorates. We know we are being scammed and we have had enough. We say, “No!” but the actions of our political representatives eloquently declare, “We don’t care!”
Congratulations! You have driven us to our tractors, replete with this season’s muck, and now you can swill in ours, just as you expect us to swill in the muck of your woke sentiments and fake green concerns.
But the legitimacy of “green energy” per se, is not the subject of this blog post.
Rather, let us consider the Emperor’s New Clothes. Some very interesting research has recently shown that a considerable majority of people wants to see lots of “renewable energy” projects, among whom an equally considerable majority do not wish it to be in their own community.
And let us not labour under the delusion that the regional-rural fightback against the disproportionate pillaging of prime agricultural land, for the purported sake of the environment, is limited to perverse individuals in the New England region, New South Wales, or even Australia.
No, indeed.
The muck-wielding tractors and intransigent villagers of many European among other nations, including The Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and Belgium, bear convincing testimony to the fact that, across the so-called developed world, exactly the same schemes are afoot. There are different scenarios on the ground, but it is the same agenda.
And the bad guys may have different names but they are all singing from the same song-sheet, and their songs have nothing to do with ordinary people being one while being many.
Here are just a few examples to feast your weary eyes upon. You will need to look beyond the biased reporting in most of these articles to see the groundswell of community fightback that is being replicated across the world. And this is not out of ignorance of “the climate facts”. This is a direct result of the knowledge we have all been played. The Emperor is well and truly naked and we all know it.
Australia
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/01/12/city-nimbys-v-regions-in-a-fight-over-renewables/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-28/renewable-energy-transition-community-pushback-emissions-targets/103154364 https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-07-15/ballarat-tractor-protest-western-renewables-link/101242728 https://latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/news/2024/02/20/gridlock-over-transmission-lines/
Europe
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/farmers-are-revolting-in-europe-due-to-climate-policies/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europes-restless-farmers-are-forcing-policymakers-act-2024-04-03/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/europe-farmers-climate-green-protest-eu
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/rural-villagers-celebrate-victory-against-giant-solar-farm
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65926756
https://www.politico.eu/article/net-zero-climate-change-nimbys-uk-solar-energy/
U.S.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/native-american-tribes-fight-us-over-a-proposed-usd-10-billion-renewable-energy-transmission-line/articleshow/105198597.cms https://governorswindenergycoalition.org/more-power-lines-or-rooftop-solar-panels-the-fight-over-energys-future/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-solar-expansion-stalled-by-rural-land-use-protests-2022-04-07/