The lead story on Her Majesty’s Royal Institute of International Affairs since its Feb. 3 release, is a “Research Paper” laying out a strategy to systematically reduce food production and consumption worldwide. It proposes doing so by using methods similar to those being employed now to drive down energy use by banning fossil fuels—all in the name of defending “Nature.”
The policy is not new — farmers have been protesting across the world against such policies — but the paper, “Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss: Three Levers for Food System Transformation in Support of Nature,” stands out for the baldness of its admission that the intent of the monarchy’s policy is to raise the cost of food worldwide and forcibly reduce world food production permanently. To propose doing so at a time when famine threatens hundreds of millions of lives, and an even greater number of families are going hungry in rich and poor countries alike, makes it undeniably clear that this is a plan for depopulation.
The five authors who wrote the paper are all part of the Chicken Little “climate crisis” mafia, starting with lead author Tim Benton, who heads the Energy, Environment and Resources Program at Chatham House (as RIIA is known). Benton was one of the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report on climate change and land, and the U.K. Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017.
The premise of the study is that “the production of food is the primary cause of biodiversity loss globally,” on land, and in freshwater and the seas. “The area of land occupied by agriculture has increased by around 5.5 times since 1600 and is still increasing. Currently, cropping and animal husbandry occupy about 50% of the world’s habitable land.” Production of food is declared harmful, for “degrading or destroying natural habitats and contributing to species extinction.”
They object that for decades, “policies and economic structures have aimed to produce ever more food at ever lower cost. Intensified agricultural production degrades soils and ecosystems, driving down the productive capacity of land and necessitating even more intensive food production to keep pace with demand. Growing global consumption of cheaper calories and resource-intensive foods aggravates these pressures. Current food production depends heavily on the use of inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides, energy, land and water.”
Three “levers” for crushing the current “cheaper food paradigm,” are put forward:
