EU will regret making farmers scapegoats for climate change
EU will regret making farmers scapegoats for climate change
Brussels is well on the way to losing rural Europe — and it only has itself to blame.
Oof, this is such a bad article. Please take it with a grain of salt.
The reason those livestock farms have to close down has nothing to do with climate change. It has to do with biodiversity. Let me elaborate:
The Netherlands has a big issue with nitrogen deposition. Due to the intensive nature of livestock farming in some areas some pretty unique biomes are disappearing. That in turn has consequences for biodiversity and the EU made laws to protect certain areas from getting worse in that respect.
The farms that are being closed down won’t have much impact on food security. It’s farms around certain Nature preserves: the so called Natura 2000 areas.
This will cause a lot of families and even rural communities grief because their businesses will either have to pivot away from large scale livestock or seize to exist.