Farmers Protests, Climate Hysteria, Fake AI Images, and the Systemic Issue of Oil Dependency

By Mark Keenan
Global Research, March 04, 2024
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Over the past four years farmers have been holding protests across Europe.

The farmers are protesting against excessive EU environmental regulation and red tape, rising operating and fuel costs, and so-called “green” policies.

Protests have been taking place in countries including France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland, Greece, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands[1]. For example, below is a picture of Dutch farmers protesting at government measures which impact on their livelihood. 

In 2024, the farmer protests continue to spread across Europe. For example, in February hundreds of tractors rolled into Prague,[2]. In January, nearly 1,000 farmers protested in Toulouse, and Belgian farmers initiated widespread roadblocks as part of their protest[3]. In December, German farmers protested in Berlin with 1700 tractors blocking the road leading to the Brandenburg Gate. 

Farmers claim to be struggling with some in danger of bankruptcy.

It appears to me that at the root of EU agricultural policy is the bogus EU and UN ‘climate change is caused by manmade CO2 and methane from cows narrative’.

This UN narrative has now been widely exposed worldwide as being based on fake science. See this article for more details of the fake science and the 1850 scientists and climate professionals that have signed a declaration refuting the UN climate narrative. This information is of relevance to dairy farmers because the EU plans to cull millions of dairy cows due to the bogus assertion that methane from livestock, such as cows, causes catastrophic climate change. 

The Gap Between Climate Hysteria and Reality – Perhaps Climate Warriors Should Try Working on a Farm?

Climate warriors, and indeed all of us, may do well to bear in mind that the food we buy in supermarkets does not come out of magic box!

It takes the hard work of farmers, along with the magic of God’s earth and sun, to produce the food for the people of Europe and the world. While countless farmers are impacted by EU climate and agricultural policies, the climate warriors of the world protest (mistakenly) about man-made, cow-made, and farmer-made climate change.

What a surreal and bizarre situation. It has been estimated that if there was a severe shortage of oil most supermarkets and ports could become empty within a week – what deluded starving climate warrior would have the time or energy to block roads and protest about climate change or fossil fuels then?

Since the age of 15, activist and icon, Greta Thunberg has called for world leaders and the public to take action for climate change mitigation stating the narrative of the UN IPCC.  Miss Thunberg, has obviously been manipulated, and used as a public relations instrument on behalf of the architects of the bogus climate consensus. It appears she has been cynically and professionally marketed and used by organizations, including the UN, and the EU Commission.

As detailed in this book the architects appear to include a wider network tied to the organization of former Vice-President Al Gore, who was featured in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Gore appears to be a very wealthy climate profiteer, and Gore’s partner, ex-Goldman Sachs official David Blood, is a member of the Bank of International Settlements-created Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), which represents $118 trillion of assets globally[4]. The misleading documentary An Inconvenient Truth was even made mandatory viewing in many public schools. 

It appears nothing we can say scientifically can ‘unbrainwash’ the brainwashed minds.

With the rise of ‘political correctness’ and ideological conformity how can one help people to see reality for what it is, and escape from the mental panic that the UN climate catastrophe narrative induces? We all should be safe in the knowledge that tomorrow is another day, and be able to wake up knowing the world will not end in 12 years-time due to catastrophic climate change! 

Maybe getting out into the countryside would bring a smile to the faces of climate warriors who often seem to have a climate-induced frown. Below we see Greta Thunberg enjoying a rare day out on a farm – look how happy she seems.

Fake Reality – The Problematic Use of AI-generated Images and AVR Software

[Aside: Disclaimer and Exclusion of Liability.]

I wish all people well and to have a sunny smile, including Miss Thunberg. Note that the above picture of Miss Thunberg driving a tractor is of course, fictious, not real, and was created in a matter of minutes using free AI software. I simply typed the words “Greta Thunberg smiling while driving a tractor on a farm” into AI software and ‘it’ produced the above picture. 

This simple example demonstrates that anyone can now create fake images via the increasing availability of AI and augmented virtual reality (AVR) software. The fact that such software can manipulate human images and create fake pictures and videos is in itself a separate issue that is extremely problematic. Note, however, this is not all simply a new phenomenon, such software has been in use and development for many years, for example, NASA have been utilising AVR software for years, as I evidence in this article. 

The fact that these tools exist raises many issues in relation to the possibility of reality being faked, and in relation to the ethics of manipulating someone’s image. AI software can produce such manipulations in a matter of seconds – where will this AI path take us? We can hardly imagine what deceptive shenanigans could be embarked upon by those groups who would wield the most sophisticated AI tools to advance their own agenda and ends. It appears that the most sophisticated AI tools are not currently not available to the general public.] 

Food Security – The Systemic Issue of Oil Dependency and the Question of ‘Peak Oil’

I turn now to the subjects of food security, oil dependency, and the future of farming. Many questions arise in relation to these subjects. One aspect that is clear is that the current industrial economic system of the world, including modern commercial industrialized farming, is extremely dependent on the availability of affordable oil. It is clear that famers do vital work for society in relation to food and milk provision. 

Note that without farmers and affordable oil, the supermarket shelves that most us on rely on for food, would quickly become empty of food. Thus, rather than the fake climate agenda a topic of more relevance, surely, is the long-term availability of oil, and other energy-intensive fossil-fuels. I wrote about these subjects on my blog as far back as 15 years ago when I was a member of an NGO that had a focus on this research area.

It appears that farmers face challenging times. There is a veritable swathe of issues and questions to consider including:

  • Commercial farming is dependent on the availability of affordable oil – what could happen if affordable oil become unavailable long-term, or if predictions about peak oil are correct? Are peak oil predictions simply more misinformation and scaremongering?
  • The WEF reset agenda involving the Internet of Things (IoT) and electrification of everything, including the farming sector. What is the future of farming? And how will it be powered?
  • Farmers today have been born into times of monetization and inflation, commercialisation and globalization, government taxes, and excessive government regulations, etc.
  • The ‘system’ appears to squeeze small and mid-scale operators – it appears millions of small to mid-scale farmers worldwide are struggling, and in some countries, for example in India, many have gone bankrupt.
  • Aspects of modern commercial farming that are viewed as problematic by many people, such as the use of vaccines, growth hormones, chemical-based fertilisers, health impacting chemical-based pesticides and herbicides, GMOs, genetically-modified terminator seeds, etc. None of the aforementioned were needed in thousands of years of traditional farming cultures, and appear to have been imposed by corporate and financial forces, in particular, over the past two or three generations. 
  • The historical perspective – the takeover over of the commons land in recent centuries, and how the onset of monetisation, globalisation, and oil-based industrial farming gradually displaced traditional organic farming cultures and methods worldwide. Some of us still have memories of organic milk, eggs, vegetables, cheese, apples, etc., produced on our own family plot, or by a neighbour, or at least widely available locally. 

I discuss some of these topics in this book. Perhaps I will attempt to write an article on these subjects and I welcome input from farmers and persons with specific insight on these subjects.

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Mark Gerard Keenan is a former scientist at the UK Government Dept. of Energy and Climate Change, and at the United Nations Environment Division. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is author of the following books available on amazon.com:

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Notes

[1]  Sources: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0201/1429809-farmers-protest/

[2] Source: https://nordictimes.com/europe/czech-farmers-join-protests/

[3] Source: https://nordictimes.com/europe/french-farmers-protest-against-rising-prices/

https://nordictimes.com/europe/belgian-farmers-protest-in-brussels/

[4] Source:  https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2019-0718/Green_Finance_Strategy.pdf

Featured image: Greta Thunberg leads protests in Italy ahead of COP26. Credit: Radio Habana Cuba 

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