Maggie's Farm

Maybe these stories represent the new strategy. When the public won't cooperate with the Green New Deals, when they annoyingly demand to see coherent scientific thought backed up by data, when the forward plans and policies are all based on hidden 'models' that meet with skepticism, then the next step is to remove the option of choice. Presto! Regulate hydrocarbons out of existence; de-permit pipeline construction; close farms and regulate food production out of existence; stop feed shipments and starve the livestock; seize land when those measures don't work.

Will the populace eventually realize that only one outcome exists for these tactics, when exercised by an authority that has a monopoly on violence: Violence, one way or another.

I've read that the motivation at the bottom of the Dutch agriculture reduction mandate is a desire to re-district the farmland for urban construction projects: New ghettos, in other words. A minister is on record extolling the virtues and conveniences of construction on virgin land, rather than the nuisance of urban construction zones, which apparently are a terrible bother to city dwellers. Just wait until they're the livestock being starved.

We live out in the country, and in this area the surface soils have a high clay content, with low permeability. So, conventional septic systems with leach fields are a non-option, unless you're on big acreage. Instead, we have aerobic systems, a 3-tank-in-series setup with continuous air injection that fosters the growth of aerobic bacteria, which quickly breaks down the solid waste and cleans the associated water. It's a small-scale version of what municipalities use. When the third tank fills up, a pump kicks on and sprinklers pop up and the treated water is sprayed on the lawn (instead of overflow down a leach line). The pump is just a sturdy down-hole water well type pump. Ours cycles a couple of times daily, usually.

If one uses wet wipes in a system like this, you'll be pumping your first tank (sediment) often, cleaning out clogged inter-connect lines, and replacing your $800 water pump on a frequent basis as it gets clogged up with the plastic from the wipes. An expensive education - builders always warn their customers about NOT using them. They are sort of on a level with throw-away COVID masks and plastic water bottles. I think eventually they'll figure out how to make them from biodegradable materials, but they surely aren't that right now.