Who Will Rule the Farmlands?
Timothy Birdnow
How "Green Energy" is wrecking the environment.
New York Governor Kathy "Hokum" Hockel is forcing giant solar farms on the residents or rural communities against their will, disrupting wildlife habitats and making prime farmland unusable for crops.
At some point there is going to be resistance, with vandalism striking these pyramids honoring the gods of green. I'm afraid we're going to see a "resistance movement" that makes it a point to wreck these things. We are going to turn good people into criminals, alas.
The Daily Caller dishes on the dimwittery:
New York is tearing up rural communities, wiping out wildlife sanctuaries, and burying prime agricultural soil under solar installation in the name of green energy. The root of this campaign is New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) of 2019, which demands that renewable sources supply 70% of the state’s electricity, that greenhouse gas emissions fall 40% below 1990 levels, and that the state build at least 3,000 megawatts of storage.
The footprint of the 18 solar power plants is staggering. The Cider Solar Farm in Genesee County will cover 4,000 acres, and the Ridge View Solar Farm in Niagara County will take another 2,000. Both were pushed through over the strong objections of the people who farm.
And the folks who will suffer from this have no voice, being drowned out by the liberals in NYC and Albany and other blue communities in the Empire State. It's just shoved down their throats.
The article continues:
Then came a rebuke from Washington. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler jointly challenged New York’s approval of solar projects on productive farmland, criticizing the state for not applying federal standards in evaluating its farmland.
And here is the contradiction that should embarrass every official who signed off on the policy. Hochul announced a moratorium of up to a year on new data centers that draw more than 50 megawatts, which typically occupy 15 to 40 acres. Meanwhile, New York has already parked solar complexes on approximately 11,000 acres of federally certified prime farmland and wildlife habitats.
Centuries ago, South American civilizations offered land, crops, and sometimes human lives to appease gods they believed controlled the climate. New York has updated the ritual for a modern audience. It has built altars of solar farms and appointed a priesthood of bureaucrats who redact the evidence of their policies’ destruction.
Years ago there was a southern Missouri farmer who had his grain sequestered by the government. Eventually he just took some equipment to the silo and broke in and took all his grain out. It was bankrupting him. He became a hero to the people of Missouri and ran for Congress, coming close to winning (he was running against a long time Republican incumbent who was very popular and I'm glad he lost because he ran as a DEMOCRATS - spit!)
The farming community in New York may make a similar raid on these solar farms. Wayne Cryts broke into that silo (the grain elevator owners were in bankruptcy and "their" assets seized) forcibly and took what was his. How long before the farmers take back what is theirs in New York?
Could anyone blame them?
This is bigger than just some farmland in New York; it is a war being waged by the Demo-Left against the rural communities. Country folk have a culture that is different from the city, and is usually quite a bit more conservative. The Left hates that - they can't get control of people who are self-sufficient.
I would add Marx and Engels promoted the concept first; they understood the importance of controlling the farms and the people who can make do on the land. One of the things they promoted was blurring the distinction between city and countryside. They wanted the whole world to be a cityscape, with all it's problems and congestion, so they could control the whole country, not just the cities.
Mao won his revolution against the Nationalists in China because he ruled the countryside while the Quomintang ruled the cities. Guess who won? Mao could starve the enemy out, and attack from any direction. Chiang Kai-Shek could do nothing but huddle in his cities and wait for the attacks.
So control of the countryside is vital to final victory and the Left knows it. We own the countryside. This policy by Hochul is as much about destroying the powerbase of the opposition (us) as much as anything.
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