Netherlands to close up to 3k farms to comply with EU rules

Which will be closed eventually, because they want all land to develop a megacity (think Hong Kong) in the (near) future.

Well they need to offset the carbon footprint of private jets and yachts of the WEF somehow.

Yep, would all be fine if they could just return the nitrogen in its original form.

It's mainly the ammonia (fertilizer runoff from fields and animal waste) that's a problem for nearby nature preserves and bodies of water, according to environmentalists who sued the government. Also livestock urine ammonia vapors and nitrogen oxides forming smog.

From a non-paywalled article: [https://www.science.org/content/article/nitrogen-crisis-jam-...]

This of course relates to nitrogen holding compounds such as ammonia, other sources (in the form of nitrogen oxides) are road and airplane engines as well as construction and heavy industries. These nitrogen compounds actually have an acute negative impact on population health through respitory tract damage as well as on wildlife as well as certain types of plants, which leads to a reduction in biodiversity. That's the reason for EU wide nitrogen compound emmission caps. Just to be clear, the Netherlands has an extremely high concentration of livestock farmers. About 75% of meat production is exported even though we're an extremely small country with a super high population and structure density..

Who would want to buy a farm for which the license to operate has been revoked? This is a reduction in total livestock in the Netherlands as a result of a reduction in the amount of farms, these farms are not just being bought up and integrated into larger farms....