African farmer disputes EU criticism of fossil-fuel fertilizer, says it’s the key to ending hunger
By Guy Page
Are you frustrated with the steady barrage of anti-fossil fuel initiatives from Montpelier making it more expensive and less free for you to drive, see at nighttime, stay warm, and eat?
You’re not alone!
‘Asante’ (Thank you in Swahili) to small-scale farmer Jusper Machogu for posting on Facebook why fossil-fuel-based fertilizers are the key to feeling a continent where one in five sub-Saharan Africans still experience hunger…..
Here’s what he writes…..
Chemical fertilizers are toxic to ‘African soils’!, says Richard from the European union. The EU that gets about 60% of their Phosphate from Morocco! Our natural gas (Ammonia) and phosphate, that we have in plenty, are toxic to feed the impoverished hungry African with! In other words, our fertilizers are safe for the European and not Africa!
The continent that has been using 20 kilos of fertilizer per hectare per year on average will ‘acidify’ its soils! Do you know we consume about 5% of synthetic fertilizers globally with 17% of the world population? The EU consumes 160 kilos per ha! I don’t see it worried about hunger or acidity. China does 360! And have you heard of lime?
Increasing soil erosion? I don’t get that. More NPK means more plants thus more soil cover.
Polluting ground water? The solution to clean water is drilling boreholes, desalination and water plants that purify water. The solution is access to affordable plentiful Fossil Fuels and not using fertilizer.
Poisoning rivers? How poisoned are the EU lakes and rivers? How do people survive? I know of many reports on river poisoning through the use of fertilizer in the Netherlands but the Dutch farmers are well known for crazy countrywide demonstrations when the gov tried to limit the amount of fertilizer they used! I don’t think they are worried about river pollution at all! Why should a typical African worry about that?
Africa has been practicing Agroecology/sustainable farming for centuries. I am not surprised to learn that 1 in 5 people in SS Africa sleeps hungry. Or a hectare of land produces about 2-3 Tons of 🌽 compared to 12 Tons in the US! The difference is in our rate of application of crop food (fertilizer) per ha. It is why affluent countries have 75% more food than they really need.
Fossil Fuels for Africa.
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The power brokers have always wished for most natives in Africa to die. The continent is rich in resources all they need is the slave labor to extract it. The rest are in their eyes, superfluous useless eaters. Now the power broker ps are also targeting Europe and the U.S. especially. The war on food is a multi-front war and in the west this is mostly couched in terms of some harmful effect on climate, as they use climate change hysteria to justify their every action. I wholly embrace regenerative and small farming, which will not need the destructive practices of modern farming techniques. The war is the west has already reduced the feed stocks for fertilizers (natural gas ) and that will decrease productivity in modern factory like farm systems. That will lead to hunger in the West too, as productivity drops to perhaps even less than in Africa since our soils have been totally degraded by modern commodity based farming. However that transition cannot occur by simply switching off the flow of NPK. The multi-pronged attack on food systems world wide is an attack by the global elite on all of us. They want most of us to simply die. Starvation is not the only means either. The other means include draining the financial resources of the country via a fiat and thus speculation breeding economic system, using perpetual war, fear mongering the latest disease ( pandemic ) du jour so we will be frightened enough to take experimental products ( biologics- none of which are now required to undergo safety testing, or be subject to good manufacturing practice, surveillance for adverse events, with no requirement for informed consent etc.; this used to be only for EUA products but was recently expanded to include all biologics – vaccines of all types are considered biologics not to be confused with therapeutics – and of course these all have absolute and robust protections from liability ). Couple this with the general poor quality of not only fresh food in this country, but the high proportion of processed and junk food in the average western diet, along with allowable levels of chemicals ( e.g. PFOAs ), pesticides, herbicides, in our environment and we have a sick population many of whom are beholden to symptom only pharmacological interventions which only make them sicker, and the result is an already declining age of death. All of this is for profit. After they kill enough of us off the rest of the non-elite will be consigned to be the serfs or slaves of the elite. One bright note: the elite tend to only breed and reproduce with themselves so they are getting more inbred and will have to result to subjecting themselves to their own technological solutions. In all of this they reject God and view themselves as Gods. That kind of hubris is more than foolish. Thus these powerful elite will perhaps be their own demise as they have little understanding of the complexities of the human body, of the climate cycle systems, or in fact all of the natural systems devinely created to be self healing. The trouble is not just the elites but everyone over centuries who has allowed profit and exploitation ( this breeds overt corruption in government) to supplant what is supposed to be stewardship.
Not only do they reject God, they engage in child torture and murder to kill the most potent source of godhood, within the innocence of babes. 85k children missing, 8 million worldwide, yearly. It.s here in Vermont. It is the means of blackmail. I just heard a witness account of a Vermont senator who cried more than any other the witness had seen as he was forced to rape a young boy or have his entire family killed if he refused. It appeared to be BS. So I would like to talk further with you to bring forward the Agenda for a Living Earth, and how and why we can expand the organic farms radically. The agenda is on my website of my name, and my email is my name at myyahoo.com. I am working with a team on an entrepreneurial approach to bolster the economic power of the private sector with the ORPH farming as the principle push. Thank you for speaking to the issue with clarity. I hope to hear from you.
Anti fossil fuel sentiment is all part of the Great Reset pushed by WEF. These folks are never bothered by the facts or history. Their predictions of global doom starting with Malthus’s 1798 book (“An Essay on the Principle of Population”, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus ) right up to Paul Ehrlich
(1968 Population Bomb) and Al Gore have NEVER been correct. All Utopians bent on imposing their views no matter how many people are harmed, maimed, starved, or killed in the name of “progress” Just consider the communist/socialist Stalin starving millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 as part of his Utopian fantasy. It’s always the same. Man rejects his Creator as the author and sustainer of all life and replaces it with worship of the State as the ultimate authority. Do our rights come from our Creator, our heavenly Father or from the all powerful State? As the old hymn (based on a poem by James Russell Lowell 1845) says,
“Once to every soul and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by for ever
‘Twixt that darkness and that light.”
thank you/// sukey watson/// that covers most of our problems now///
All i have to say to this article is that i would not drink from most of the lakes and rivers in the EU. They are really yucky. There is run off and all sorts of bad stuff in them.
As a hiker i often drink from streams in Vermont and i have never gotten sick from it.