Here is an interesting article from Spiked Online:
Net Zero is a neo-pagan religion that is
seriously harming people’s liberties and livelihoods.
We look back with bewilderment at the ritual sacrifice of animals by our
ancestors. Whether it was the Celtic people’s sacrifice of livestock to appease
pissed-off deities or the Ancient Romans’ slaughter of oxen so that Jupiter
might be more sparing with his stormy weather, it was all a bit mad. We would
never be so superstitious, we tell ourselves. I’m not sure that’s true.
Consider the proposed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in Europe in the holy
name of Net Zero. This is the return of pagan lunacy, surely.
Irish farmers are under pressure to ‘cull up to 200,000 cows’ in order that
Ireland might meet its ‘climate goals’, reported the Financial Times at the weekend. The
Irish government is considering proposals to bump off that amount of cattle
over the next three years to help it achieve a 25 per cent reduction in its
agricultural emissions. Cows produce methane, you see, and methane is bad. It’s
a greenhouse gas. Farming accounts for 40 per cent of Ireland’s greenhouse-gas
emissions, so it has become a natural target for the Net Zero zealots. Every EU
member state is under pressure to make strides towards Net Zero, and if that
entails the sacrifice of livestock, so be it. Save the planet, slaughter the
cows.
It’s so superstitious. A ‘mooted cow massacre’ to try to offset the angry
climatic conditions apparently caused by man? If someone can explain how this
is any different to an ancient people’s ritualistic killing of a poor bull in a
desperate bid to placate the weather gods, I’d be most grateful. In fact, if
anything, the proposed cow-culling in Ireland is worse than the paganistic
antics of our ill-educated forebears. At least they were wise enough to offer
up only one or two beasts to the gods of thunder – the neo-pagans of the Net
Zero cult are offering up whole herds to try to assuage the heatwaves and
floods they think furious Mother Earth has in store for us.
And they seem to care little for the consequences of their heathen
carbon-offsetting. Irish farmers are seriously worried for their livelihoods.
The dairy industry is worth €13 billion a year to the
Irish economy. It provides 54,000 jobs. It brought in a staggering €6.8 billion
in exports in 2022 alone. What will become of all this fruitful work if cow
slaughter in the name of Net Zero takes off? We’re portrayed as ‘climate
killers’, complains one Irish farmer. Indeed, eco-activists marched in Dublin
with banners saying ‘Meat + dairy = climate crisis’ – a perfect snapshot of out
how out-of-touch the urban elites are, who probably never give a second thought
to the question of who produced the luscious cream that appears atop the €20
pancakes they scoff for Sunday brunch in a hip Dublin eatery.
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