Consumption, sort of. This is for nitrous oxide and urea which are both produced by livestock (and all other animals). Basically Dutch have a lot of cows, cows produce nitrogen waste because they eat a lot of protein because they are made of protein. Basically The Netherlands is fucking its own economy and the food supply so that they can hit some metric set by unaccountable bureaucrats (many such cases).
It's also a huge portion of our atmosphere and one of the most fundamental building blocks of any food web or ecosphere. "Reducing nitrogen" is equivalent to "reducing total life".
You'll eat nothing and you'll be happy.
Isn't nitrogen a huge part of creating fertilizer to help plants grow? Like, we could use a lot of it right now?
Is this government preventing nitrogen production or consumption?
Consumption, sort of. This is for nitrous oxide and urea which are both produced by livestock (and all other animals). Basically Dutch have a lot of cows, cows produce nitrogen waste because they eat a lot of protein because they are made of protein. Basically The Netherlands is fucking its own economy and the food supply so that they can hit some metric set by unaccountable bureaucrats (many such cases).
It's also a huge portion of our atmosphere and one of the most fundamental building blocks of any food web or ecosphere. "Reducing nitrogen" is equivalent to "reducing total life".