Blame rice for global warming!? ‘Rice is to blame for around 10% of global emissions of methane’ – ‘Rice cannot be ignored’

From Climate Depot

AFP: “Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored.”

Climate Crackpots Blame Global Warming on Rice – “Now it is firmly ensconced among the climate change cult that eating meat is killing the planet and you must ‘eat ze bugs’, the same people have a new target, rice.”

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Climate Depot’s Marc Morano comment: “The big picture is this: This isn’t necessarily about shutting down rice production. This is about the climate agenda coming from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, academia,the corporate world, identifying every facet of modern society as being a climate ‘problem’ that needs managing and thus a takeover.  So whether we’re talking about transportation, whether it’s airlines, whether it’s gas-powered cars, whether it’s eating meat, whether it’s high-yield agriculture, it’s all allegedly creating a ‘climate emergency’ and thus global elites want to take over and ‘manage’ them. They are looking for a managerial revolution. They want to put themselves in charge of saving the planet and thus put themselves in charge of all aspects of modern society.”

By: Admin – Climate Depot

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano comment: The big picture is this: This isn’t necessarily about shutting down rice production. This is about the climate agenda coming from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, academia,the corporate world, identifying every facet of modern society as being a climate ‘problem’ that needs managing and thus a takeover.  So whether we’re talking about transportation, whether it’s airlines, whether it’s gas-powered cars, whether it’s eating meat, whether it’s high-yield agriculture, it’s all allegedly creating a ‘climate emergency’ and thus global elites want to take over and ‘manage’ them. They are looking for a managerial revolution. They want to put themselves in charge of saving the planet and thus put themselves in charge of all aspects of modern society.

Self-appointed earth saviors seek to manage every aspect of our lives to save us from the ‘climate catastrophe.’ So it’s not that they want to ban rice eating, but they’re claiming that rice production contributes to the ‘climate crisis’. The climate agenda demand that rice production has to be forever altered and turned over to a corporate government collusion to ‘fix’ the problems with rice agriculture. Of course, these globalist plans mean that you need big agribusiness corporations which have sold out to the climate agenda to manage rice production, and this means small farmers and agrarian countries are going to be at the mercy of corporate agriculture, taking over more and more of food production.

Every aspect of modern society is untenable due to our ‘climate crisis.’  It includes limiting freedom of travel, home thermostat controls, restrictions on your appliances, limiting the ability to eat meat, and bans on gas-powered cars. They’re doing all of this without a vote of democracy. A corporate government collusion that uses the climate agenda to manage every aspect of modern society.

They’re collapsing our current system, they’re collapsing our energy, our food, our transportation, and they’re collapsing our free speech, and they’re putting themselves in charge because they are claiming we can’t leave rice production as is, or that we need to radically alter livestock practices and agriculture and transportation or we are doomed.

If we don’t hand over the keys of modern society over to this small group of managers, we are led to believe that people left to their own devices will literally create a climate crisis, create inequity and racism, and in order to save the Earth, climate bureaucrats need to be in charge of everything because they believe we live in a finite world, and everything has to be managed.

We are told we must consent to live in a technocracy where we will be ruled by experts who know better than us. So they’re going to tell nations where rice is a fundamental food that they can’t have agriculture the way they’ve done it for thousands of years because the climate can’t handle it. And therefore, big corporate agribusiness, in collusion with governments and international organizations, are going to come over and basically regulate the small and medium-sized farms out of existence. We’re seeing this attempt happening in real-time in the Netherlands. They’re killing up to 12,000 family-run, generational farms with net zero climate rules on on fertilizers. And big agribusiness will inevitably take over in this big corporate takeover of farms. See:The Great Food Reset has begun – Net Zero restrictions on farms designed ‘to squeeze small farmers from the market, allowing them to be bought out by multinational agribusiness giants’

See: JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL in Unherd: About 70% of global farmland is owned by 1% of “farmers”. Agri-business now rules the roost. Four companies — Cargill, Archer Daniel Midland, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus — control 90% of the global grain trade. Similarly, four companies — ChemChina, Corteva, Bayer and BASF — control 66% of the world’s agricultural chemicals. These businesses are hardly renowned for their care of the environment. Likewise, politicians. The post-Second World War intensification of agriculture, promoted in the West by national governments and the nascent EU as a path to food security, has starved the soil and exhausted crops.

Morano: The climate agenda cannot handle a decentralized world. They need to control the means of production, the distribution of food, and control of the movement of people.

It’s basically what the ruling classes have done for generations: Those in charge always come up with a reason why the rest of us cannot be free, why the rest of us cannot make these choices for ourselves. And the reason du jour is the climate crisis is forcing them to literally transform our modern way of life.

They are actively collapsing our energy, food, and transportation. They’re pushing insect-eating as an alternative source of protein. And this is the United Nations doing this. It’s the World Economic Forum doing government.  Bill Gates, America’s number one farmland owner in the U.S. has publicly stated that his goal is to get the entire Western world off of eating livestock meat and instead eating his billions of dollars invested in lab-grown meat made in steel vats and literally printed from 3d printer. See:Your Future Meals Could Come From A 3D Printer ‘to combat climate-related food insecurity’, Researchers Say – ‘Food paste is squeezed through a syringe’ into 3D printer

TheGreat Food Reset: ‘Lab-grown meat’ harvested in ‘massive steel vats’ edges closer to fed approval & U.S. dinner plates – As EU approves human consumption of worms & crickets

Morano: This is our future — if we allow it.  First, they came for your energy, then your transportation, then your meat and high-yield agriculture, and now they’re coming after rice production. The climate agenda just keeps expanding its reach and is moving rapidly to gain control of global food production so that they can manage it in a ‘climate friendly’ way. And many of the people pushing these policies believe they are altruistic. They actually think they’re saving the planet by doing this, and they are preventing the rest of us — the unwashed masses from destroying the planet.

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April 20, 2023 6:05 pm

Rice is a mainstay of Asian food. If the Green Lords think Asian governments are going to reduce rice cultivation as the Dutch are doing to their agriculture, the GLs are gonna be corrected in a nanosecond.

Dave Andrews
Reply to  Douglas Proctor
April 21, 2023 7:26 am

Yep, rice is a staple food for more than 50% of the world’s population and every year about a further 51m rice consumers are added to the total.

Geoffrey Williams
April 20, 2023 7:11 pm

So ‘rice’ produces 10% of methane. If we add up all the %’s of methane produced by all the various they claim then we would be well over 500% ! !

old cocky
Reply to  Geoffrey Williams
April 20, 2023 7:43 pm

I think that’s either 10% of methane attributable to human activities, or 10% of that attributed to agriculture/horticulture/aquaculture, or perhaps it’s 10% of that attributed to food production.

mleskovarsocalrrcom
April 20, 2023 7:50 pm

Total BS. Tell over half the world’s population they are being negligent by eating rice won’t go over well.

April 21, 2023 3:42 am

From the article: “Climate Crackpots Blame Global Warming on Rice”

That’s the headline to use, right there!

Climate Crackpots. Ain’t it the truth!

Methane emissions can be ignored as inconsequential to the warming of the climate. That doesn’t stop these Climate Crackpots from rolling out this methane lie on a regular basis.

I don’t want Climate Crackpots/Totalitarians controlling what I eat.

April 21, 2023 3:52 am

From the article: “AFP: “Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide.”

Oh, yeah? How much heat does carbon dioxide trap?

Answer: They don’t have a clue, as nobody knows this answer. After over 50 years of looking. Climate Crackpots are making claims they can’t back up with facts.

The Real Engineer
April 21, 2023 7:14 am

More killing people. At least 40% of the worlds population eats rice as a staple foodstuff. No rice then…?

Jeff
April 21, 2023 7:32 am

Yet UC Riverside published a stride showing that methane reflects incoming short wave radiation.

JC
April 21, 2023 8:04 am

Geez are we talking about farting again?

Only the ‘noble’ merit the right to fart

  • Wild Beasts
  • The chosen and the altered

It’s like reincarnation….I keep working on “MY” karma so that I might be allowed to once again be farter in the world.. Oh I wish, I could return as a Canadian Goose they are so wonderfully foul. (Tongue firmly in cheek.)

Who cares about rice… let the rice growers worry about the Radical Dystopian Honor Society….the noble farters of the world..

I can’t grow rice well in PA but I do grow over 150 lbs of pintos, kidney, and soldier beans.

Julian Flood
April 22, 2023 9:27 am

Not rice. Termites.

Save the planet. Eliminate termites.

JF

old cocky
Reply to  Julian Flood
April 22, 2023 4:07 pm

If we farm termites for human consumption, do we have to account for the methane produced by the termite farms?

April 22, 2023 4:42 pm

Defund the UN and WEF — with extreme prejudice.

lynn
April 22, 2023 5:12 pm

These people are absolutely crazy. First they went after the fertilizer, then they went after the tractors, now they are going after our food.

This is not going to end up well.