Because what happened in Sri Lanka worked out so well.
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry warned Wednesday that the world can’t tackle climate change without first addressing the agriculture sector’s emissions.
Kerry lamented that agriculture production alone creates 33% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that reducing those emissions must be “front and center” in the quest to defeat global warming, during remarks Wednesday morning at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit. The former secretary of state also touted so-called climate smart agriculture as a potential solution.
“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world,” he said during his keynote address. “We can’t get to net-zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.”
“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way in which we do the things we’ve been doing,” he continued. “With a growing population on the planet – we just crossed the threshold of 8 billion fellow citizens around the world – emissions from the food system alone are projected to cause another half a degree of warming by mid-century.”
Perhaps the farmers should learn to solar like John Kerry said the pipeline construction employees should do after his boss shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline. It must be nice being able to afford living in a beachfront Nantucket coastal mansion since it also demonstrates how a wealthy, silk stocking elitist like him are concerned about sea level rise resulting from climate change too. No doubt Kerry’s utility bills are pretty high. Perhaps he justified the purchase after buying carbon offsets from his chum Al Gore?
But John Kerry will go full steam ahead to destroy farmers that will, in turn, shrink the food supply and then result in mass starvation and even death. It is real easy for elites, like Kerry, to be against something that ends up affecting an activity (like farming) vital to someone’s way of life when John Kerry can soak off of his rich wife and then deny his efforts were meant to hurt anyone like those who depend on the very activity Kerry opposed since he could care less about the consequences of his actions.
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