In the immortal words of John Maynard Keynes: In the long run, we’re all dead.
We are the expendables.
To the climate cultists, a few hundred million dead people is a step in the right direction. They know it's achievable, because they've done it before in the name of communism.
The war on agriculture is real, and it's just getting started. https://t.co/GCqoJoK6yv
— Katewerk (@katewerk) April 17, 2023
Well who eats rice anyway?
I don’t but I’ve been around long enough to know that today’s rice is tomorrow’s wheat.
Well said.
I suggest you buy instant rice as it takes far too much energy to cook raw long grain rise when you have no gas, no electricity, and are using candles for heat and light.
it all comes out the same in the end.
Steve, I love rice, and I would eat rice every day if my wife would permit me to do so.
Presumably no methane produced in the cultivation and processing of crickets. I thought not!
Pretty sure rice producing nations will say “come and take it”.
“Well who eats rice anyway?”
EVERYBODY – i.e., everybody else:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rice-now-killing-planet-apparently
{ – apologies if I violated Poe’s Law… 😉 – }
Budweiser is real trouble now.
My thoughts precisely.
That is why I read the comments.
What, rice beer?
Yeppers. Bud is largely rice-based. So, not only is AB-InBev a bunch of woke retards, they’re also apparently killing the planet.
I knew that, not sure why I put a question mark there.
This isn’t so bad. It’s discussing relatively benign ways to reduce emissions without harming production.
Unfortunately it’s done against a backdrop of draconian initiatives to reduce agriculture emissions in the western nations that have the potential to harm food production, and so people are not going to react well to it.
Producing rice is a problem but burning coal (in the countries that produce rice) isn’t a problem. I’m having a hard time keeping up.
Methane is the new Co2 … ohhhhhhhh mommmmmaaaa … No rice for billions of the slant eyed people (h/t Rod Stewart) and no pork, beef, or lamb for the round eyes.
Because methane traps a thousand, million times MORE heat in the atmosphere than Co2 … PETA says so.
2 lonely molecules of methane in a million molecules of air sint going to do very much.
I’m sure that 2 lonely methane molecules are an awful lot like two lonely rabbit molecules 😉
Speak for yourself.
Who gives these dictators the right to say anything about it? Who elected them master?
“Speak for yourself.”
Okay, I will.
“Who gives these dictators the right to say anything about it?”
Everyone has the right to speak on any topic.
“This isn’t so bad. It’s discussing relatively benign ways to reduce emissions without harming production.”
Don’t be so naive. If it’s just hitting public awareness now, you can be sure that some GD Prog somewhere already has a plan at hand, ready to implement. And, if production levels are harmed and billions of people starve to death, that’ll be considered a win/win.
DB
WEF wants to get down to 1/2 billion population. So they need to get rid of about 7 & 1/2 Billion .
GYM, At some point they might start asking for volunteers. I volunteer the WEF in their entirety including all their cronies. If they are really concerned and serious about this needed reduction, they should set the example right?….
I’ll wait….
Start with China, India, SE Asia, then move over to Africa.
That’s allot of war to fight.
If you add a massive dose of paranoia, then yes, there’s plenty to criticize.
I prefer to take an opinion at face value, rather than thinking I’m so damn smart I can instantly identify all hidden motives.
Remove the scales from your eyes. As I’ve noted often, yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s headline. QED: nearly everything about the coof.
Occasionally yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s headline. 99% of the time it just fades away and is forgotten, another goofy idea that didn’t pan out.
It’s discussing relatively benign ways to reduce emissions without harming production
The emissions are themselves benign because the whole global cooling/global warming/climate change narrative is bullshit and you know it.
If AFP wrote a breathless article on benign ways to reduce the impact of Unseelie magic on agriculture without affecting production, would you be defending that, too?
Reject the premise. Ag is fighting for more yield or preserving yield. These yahoos want fewer people and seem to be pulling all the levers at one to to achieve this aim – energy, food, war, disease, …
Well Steve, I do… and if you want to eat one of the best long grain rices that I’m aware of, then check out Lundgrain brand long grain organic brown rice from California. No I’m not a stickler for organic anything but I can appreciate a quality product. It is expensive by rice pricing standards, but due to the Can/US dollar difference and other monetary bs going on at present, it works out to about $5cdn a pound here in BC.
I’m not eating as much of it as I would like due to cost these days but give it a try yourself as you will be pleasantly surprised.
Thanks for the tip anon. I will check it out. I don’t eat much rice but my comment was of course sarcasm as much of the world depends on rice to live. I was quite annoyed at the AFP News Agency post that read “rice is to blame” and “rice cannot be ignored”. I don’t think they will get very far but I can see the have countries “accidentally” starving the have-not countries through ideology. As someone smarter than us has pointed out, it has been done before.
Steve…I’ve been buying Lundgren long grain from Safeway stores here in BC. I imagine any of their affiliates, (Sobeys?) carry it as well.
Note I messed up on the name in my previous post…it is in fact Lundgren.
cheers anon
I almost exclusively eat Lundberg wild rice blend … CA Christian Family rice growers.
https://www.lundberg.com/products/lundberg-wild-blend-rice
I buy wild rice that I add to the mix, because I like wild rice quite a bit (must be the Native American in my Swedish roots …)
https://www.traderjoesgroceryreviews.com/trader-joes-wild-rice-cultivated/
I use this custom wild blend in my Jambalaya and every other dish that calls for rice. Much healthier than the HIGH SUGAR white rice. Although I DO use basmati for my Risotto and CalRose Japanese rice for my Inari sushi.
And the progressive left is ready to do the killing. They feel they were born to it – their Wagnerian destiny.
And humanity, writ large, should embrace it, for it is their destiny to be ruled over: it is for them that the progressive ubermensch shoulders the burden of creating – not just a better world – but a world in which inequality, hate, and fear have been abolished.
Just another example of the left’s obsession with death culture.
If it contributes to, or creates life, then they want it destroyed.
It’s weird and sick, but true.
You know emissions can be a good thing.
Rice is a staple for Asia.
How many people will be wiped out? Normally, the Chinese are keen on a good famine but isn’t this pushing the boundaries?
@Osumashi Kinyobe – …..”the Chinese are keen on a good famine”.
It’s not the Chinese pushing this particular famine and the subsequent wars to make them.
Which is why I expect them to say something about it.
At least they won’t all starve but the Japanese and Koreans …
Indeed.
Considering that plant life has been decomposing into methane since the Garden of Eden, it’s obvious that there is a mechanism to break it down in the atmosphere or the atmosphere would be so full of methane that it would catch fire.
Methane is constantly being produced by plants as they are digested or decay. It is then broken down in the atmosphere into water and CO2 both of which are then ingested by plants so they can grow. Why should we interfere with the cycle of life?
The current level is 1800 parts per billion, which is a much scarier way of saying 1.8 parts per million. We have no empirical data as to how high the methane level was in the past so we have no way of establishing what normal is. For all we know the atmosphere had too little methane in it when we first started recording methane content.
“scientists say….” is code for lazy journalism, often opinion or junk science.
The Climate Cult, like Communism, seeks a higher goal so casualties along the way are not a problem in their eyes.
Methane is a non-issue, and this, like all climate alarmism is a complete and total fabrication. The frequency at which methane would reflect energy back to the earth is already completely saturated with CO2 and water vapor.
From the comments at Vlad Tepes, apparently there is a move afoot in NSW, Australia, to destroy beehives en masse due to infestations of a parasitic mite. However, they are just destroying the hives WITHOUT TESTING for the presence of the mites. Again, and again, action is being taken without evidence, just like the climate change arguments.
https://twitter.com/markmaycot/status/1647547712668041217
I just had this very discussion with a greenist, it was about the movie “How to blow up a pipeline”, when I said doing that in Canada in winter could cause thousands, to tens of thousands of deaths, their response started with “Yeah, but….”. They really do want us dead.
Didn’t Sri Lanka try this? I seem to recall it did not go well. Maybe they could try potatoes in Ireland…again.
Their target isn’t getting rid of a hundred million, their target is to have a world population of between 100 and 500 million, where they can sit at the top on a throne of corpses. Some like Paul Ehrlich propose a number between 1.5 and 2 billion. Some of them say it openly, none of the rest denounce their fellow travellers when those words are reported.
“scientists say…”
Josef Mengele was a scientist.
@P.Opus = Plenty
“Ryoichi Naito, a physician and key member of the unit (731)”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/1998/08/14/national/green-cross-founder-tied-to-unit-731-preservation/
Climate cultists are communists, or their willing fools. Im not sure that anyone who has ever used communism to get into and retain power ever actually believed in it. Just another method to achieve totalitarian rule.
The idea that it will solve problems and usher in a utopian paradise is just part of the sales pitch to the stupid and venal.
They just call it climate change now – but the goals are still the same.
I hope they try this in China. The CCP will find out there is more citizens than bullets. I am at the point where any group of citizens which butchers it’s government can only be seen as a good thing, world wide governments have morphed from useless busybodies merely throwing sand in the gears to pure evil. If one country, say France will follow through and revive the guillotines, many countries will fall, which can only be healthy unless you are a bureaucrat, and well, too bad about that.
The real problem is the consumer of the rice, and in fact of all other crops and of animals. If we could just get rid of those consumers the climate change issue would go away. Didn’t Tom Clancy deal with this in his novel Rainbow Six?
Naomi Klein warned than golden rice is even worse than rice rice.
Why don’t the Climate Cultists set an example to the rest of us and die?
Blogger LawhealthTech also talks about this in a thread at: https://twitter.com/LawHealthTech/status/1646783491147808769 ,
where he discusses a 2016 diagram of “Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector”, that shows “rice cultivation” as the only crop as a leading contributor to “greenhouse gas emissions”.
The world is losing many farmers with the Ukraine Russia war.