Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Activists who just threw food on a Monet painting say we won’t be able to feed ourselves in 2050 bc of climate change, but the best-available UN science predicts *higher* yields — unless we stop using fertilizer, which is what the activists are demanding

Yields have risen even as temperatures increased by 1.1 degrees above pre-industrial temps. The UN Food & Ag Org (FAO) predicts rising yields under even very high temps so long as farmers keep using fertilizer, irrigation, & tractors & don't take the advice of climate activists.

Take a close look at this UN FAO slide. The impact of climate change is dwarfed by technological change in both rainfed and irrigated farms. Business-as-usual leads to the highest (25%) increases. Adopting "sustainability" (eg only organic fertilizer) leads to the lowest.

The fanatics who keep degrading precious works of art, and themselves, claim to be concerned about food and energy supplies, but in opposing abundant energy and fertilizer they are actively reducing both of them.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/fanaticism-o…

The impact is devastating Europe and will soon devastate the rest of the world. Fertilizer production has declined by 70%. Yes, Putin is the immediate reason. But climate activists are the ones who massively reduced natural gas production in Europe.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1582785917659455489?s=20&t=J8Wx_fPWVtroUs6sVOdQow

And, according to Hillary Clinton and the former head of NATO, many of those anti-natural gas "climate activists" were funded directly by Putin, who rightly viewed greater domestic production of natural gas as a threat to his energy domination of Europe.

https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1499386637066727424

Green dogmatists were behind the radical fertilizer ban in Sri Lanka that caused a currency crisis and brought down the government. Now, climate activists are actively demanding an end to natural gas-based fertilizer worldwide.

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The EU, under the control of climate nihilists, is actively trying to stop poor nations in Africa from gaining access to modern fertilizer at a time of skyrocketing fertilizer prices and shortages of natural gas, the feedstock for nitrogen fertilizer.

reuters.com/world/europe/e…

The UN defies its own experts in its war on farming.

In 2019, the UN launched its war on modern fertilizers at a heavily-publicized conference in Sri Lanka.

One month later, Sri Lankan voters elected an anti-fertilizer president who imposed the ban.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/un-war-on-fe…

Climate activists halved public and private investment in oil and gas production around the world through a propaganda effort called "ESG," which directly contributed to the global energy crisis.

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Meanwhile, the EU, WEF, and climate activists really do want you to eat insects. I wish it were a conspiracy because then it would be secretive. Instead, they are loudly demanding we all start eating bugs.

I interviewed the main scientists and completely debunked the claim made by climate extremist groups @ExtinctionR made in 2019 that "billions will die" from climate change due to food shortages. Nobody ever refuted or even responded.

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

What could result in "billions dying" from food shortages isn't climate *change* but rather climate *policies,* specifically the climate policies that climate activists are demanding, both the end of modern synthetic fertilizers and the use of biomass for energy.

In other words, it's not just that climate activists are making wrong predictions. It's that they are using wrong predictions of food and energy shortages in the *future* to demand food and energy shortages *today.*

It's a sick game.

As such, the real problem here is not that the activists are annoying, or hypocritical, such as by using fossil fuels. The real problem is that they are demanding energy and food scarcity. That they are ostensibly protesting scarcity makes their behavior and demands sinister.

“The fiercest fanatics are selfish people who were forced, by innate shortcomings, to lose faith in their own selves. They separate their selfishness from their ineffectual selves and attach it to the service of some holy cause.”

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They are in the grip of a very dark religion that both emerges from, and manifests as, nilihilism.

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They claim to care for others but, by demanding food and energy scarcity, they are seeking to keep others down so as to raise themselves up.

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The good news is that a global movement is forming as a counterweight to the climate nihilists. In particular, farmers are leading the resistance movement. They need others in civil society to stand up with them in solidarity.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1558700830114578432?s=20&t=C-jWxe-VFccTTUjwG3uFgw

LFG!

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