by Stephen Green
In today’s stupidest news, the tiny Scandinavian nation of Denmark will impose the world’s first greenhouse gas tax on livestock farmers — with the accent on “gas.”
Beginning in 2030, Danish farmers will be taxed for “the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep, and pigs” via their rear ends. The gasses, not the taxes. The taxes come from Copenhagen’s rear end.
Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus, according to the AP report, said the country aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 30% of 1990 levels by 2030. And they’ll achieve that goal, at least in part, by taxing cow farts.
Don’t look at me. I don’t write the laws in Denmark or anywhere else. I just report on them.
The UN Environment Program claims that livestock accounts for about 32% of human-caused methane emissions, and I assume they’re using “human-caused” in the broadest possible sense. But there’s an issue that the UN — and every other green-red enviro-statist group — conveniently ignores.
That’s a vital issue but it will be easier to explain if I switch over to water consumption.
USGS estimated several years ago that 39% of America’s water use goes to the “public supply.” Of that 39%, a bit more than half — 57% — goes to residential use. That’s all the water you and I use in our homes for drinking, washing clothes, taking showers, etc. What it comes down to is that just a little more than 22% of our water is used in our homes. The rest goes to irrigation, livestock, thermoelectric power, industrial use, and so on.
full story at https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/06/26/denmark-taxes-cow-farts-because-everything-is-absurd-n4930159
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