Fed up German farmers took their tractors to the streets and blockaded Berlin.
All over the world, people directly experiencing the harm of the climate and energy campaign are waking up and speaking up.
CFACT’s Marc Morano explained on Fox, Germany has “the greatest economy in Europe. They are watching the controlled demolition of the German agricultural sector, their economy due to Net Zero… We saw what happened in the Netherlands, which is very similar to what is happening in Germany, and the farmers fought back in the Netherlands, where 10,000 plus small family farms were about to be put out by the Net Zero regulations. But the farmers formed their own political party in the Netherlands and are now fighting back in parliament.”
The Net Zero agenda has caused German energy prices to skyrocket. Farmers experience the pain in many ways, but are particularly hurt by the rising price of diesel, that is the fuel which powers their tractors and brings their crops to market. The German government responded by subsidizing the price of diesel, but then decide to cut the subsidy. Farmers had enough.
The German government is not happy one bit, and the establishment there is branding the truckers “far right extremists” in an attempt to build public support for punishing them for speaking up.
CFACT’s friends and supporters will remember when Justin Trudeau’s government pulled the same thing on Canadian truckers who organized convoys to protest the absurdities of Trudeau’s response to COVID.
With your help, CFACT sent supplies to the truckers when Trudeau tried to starve them out.
Among the worst problems with the the leftist anti-energy agenda, is that the “solutions” they propose at first sounds benign, or even beneficial (to people who don’t know better).
By the time the inevitable harms manifest themselves, great damage has already been done.
We saw this in Sri Lanka back in 2022. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa placed a ban on chemical fertilizers which caused the country’s rice yield to drop from 3.4 million down to 2.9 million tons. Civil unrest ensued with thousands of protestors eventually occupying the President’s home and forcing his resignation.
They say no one loves people who say “I told you so,” but CFACT did, over and over again.
The trick is to roll back bad energy and climate policy before the damage is done, or even better, stop it before it starts.