The tide looks to be going out for agrarian populists in the Netherlands as recent polling shows the Dutch Farmers Movement (BBB) collapsing in the polls two months before national elections, as EU-backed Greens look to steady the boat on populist discontent.
The BBB was only founded in 2019 and, energised by the Netherlands’ running battle over the imposition of nitrogen quotas on the country’s agricultural sector, came in first in last March’s regional elections.
Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore: Net Zero policies will result in mass starvation and genocide.
"If we banned fossil fuels, agricultural production would collapse in a very short period of time.. People will begin to starve… and half the population will die in a very… pic.twitter.com/vO6nIAnrGV
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