A tractor blockade established at eight points around Paris is intended to “starve Parisians”, a French farmer has claimed.
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All governments are infamous for the amount of ‘Red Tape’ their policies create, and perhaps the EU even more so.
Negotiating with the respective parties is also an area in which governments rarely excel, especially the EU.
When it comes to strikes the UK had or perhaps still has a reputation for striking, but perhaps not to the militant extremes of the French strikers.
While the farmers have to retain some degree of sustainability, they and governments have to understand the mounting problems that are creating climate change. Yes, by all means, take farmers’ sustainability into account, but if that then leads to more degrees of climate change, the farmer’s sustainability will be under pressure due to the mitigating factors of climate change and these changes could mean, eventually that farmers existence could be under threat.
The farmers and also many governments are concentrating on the short-term when the long-term could be more important and the inability or refusal to do so could well or more likely have disastrous consequences for everyone in the long-term, which may not be as long-term as many believe for it could be occurring in the very short-term. Therefore any delays in not engaging with climate change measures could be the most disastrous outcome we have ever seen.
We are seeing many weather events happening more frequently and to higher degrees than ever before and the outlook appears that these events will become even more frequent and much more disastrous than ever known.
So, striking in the short term and governments not engaging effectively could well have many consecuences we have not seen before, so much to learn by all concerned and not just in France. but this is everywhere. However,time is not on our side and actions have to be taken well before it is too late, and the too late is becoming ever shorter by every second of inaction or wrong actions being taken.
Source: French farmer vows to ‘starve Paris’