While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought on by the descendants of eugenicists who had founded “environmental” groups like Sierra Club to promote their beliefs(1), President Dwight D. Eisenhower told them,  “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field”

That’s always been the weakness of environmentalism – they don’t know any science, or anything about farming, they just claim it is bad from their air-conditioned offices to raise money. America has a scientifically disenfranchised environmental left,(2) but not as bad as Europe, where farmers pay taxes and then government openly gives their money to environmental groups who are political insiders to demonstrate against those farmers.

Farmers and biologists know nature can be beautiful, that is subjective, and also that nature is objectively out to kill us. That is the circle of life. Science and medicine exist to defy nature, which is why we are living better, longer, healthier, and with higher quality of life across the board.

Lake Ätäskö experiment results. 10.1111/1365-2664.14838 and the article is open access so taxpayers were forced to buy off Wiley so taxpayers can read science their taxes paid to create, but it is better than not being able to read science their taxes paid to create.

In Finland, for example, ‘we are the invaders’ keyboard activists know to avoid farmers. Farmers are the ones who are forced to live with Branta leucopsis (barnacle geese), a species that environmentalists demanded be listed as ‘protected’ and cause millions of dollars in damage to food each year. Though considered “protected”, they can’t be shot, there are 1,500,000 of them just in the Russian Arctic, they are actually the most common goose in Europe, so they expand their range in search of new food sources. Since farms exist to create food density, and environmentalists refuse to allow them to be culled, farmers have been reduced to gimmicks like lasers to scare them off. Then environmentalists blocked those also, because they may scare off other protected species.

So farmers have been forced to…yell at them.

That is not a joke. Farmers are so beset by anti-science beliefs as part of their government policy some set aside entire fields and just geese ravage them, and then they file an insurance claim with the government. Others stand in the fields and try to shoo them off.

A recent experiment sought to test if any of it worked. It turns out animals don’t pass along written instructions to other animals, so loud noises and lasers works, but only until the next time a flock sees all that food in one spot and no humans with boomsticks. The result was that 7% still landed in farmed fields, they just did it at night.

The geese preferred fields set aside for them to eat, because they weren’t chased off during the day, so if Finns want to set aside half of their farmland for crops that only geese will eat, that is a solution.  Finns will just have to pay 100% more for food.

Even the Italian mafia never extracted the kind of protection money that Finnish environmentalists get out of farmers but that may be okay. California Governor Gavin Newsom raised electricity costs 100% to prop up his beliefs about solar panels and he was targeted by a recall effort, but enough people are fine with his high crime levels, banning the clean-up of dead trees that led to $250 billion in wildfire damage, and anti-science energy policies that he still got 60% of the vote, albeit in a state that is 76% his political party.

But farmers in Northern and Southern Karelia are being targeted by a million giant geese. Rather than force everyone to pay 100% more for food, it would be smarter science to let farmers buy shotgun shells rather than waste their days firing blanks into the air.

NOTES:

(1) By 1970, what few black people remained began to leave when American communists who controlled the environmental movement demanded that Earth Day be held on Vlad Lenin’s birthday – a weekday outside Spring Break, meaning it was not about reaching young people at all. It had to be the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s birth. So it was no longer about the environment. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth Day supporters refused to change the date.

(2) So corrupt a journalist here got a “regenerative ranching” certificate from one of the world’s largest certifying bodies for a ranch that does not exist.

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