Complying is expected. The survivors will be herded into cities.
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NItrogen emissions are a big deal to a degree because they can wreak havoc on waterways, and soil health.
That does not mean that a Bolshevik Common Sense Food Control program should be tolerated.
For Climate Change? None. Mitigating nitrogen emissions is important generally, so typically what we have farmers do in the US is to use different fertilizers, or less fertilizers than what they are currently using, along with controlling water run-off, or planting nitrogen fixing plants, shrubs, or trees that will help re-balance the soil chemistry.
For Power? It gives you control over the food supply. If you're people can't feed themselves, they become dependent on you. Again, this is what the Bolsheviks did in Russia. They killed many hundreds of thousands of people, starving their political enemies and their supporters to deaths in weaponized famines. It also guarantees that your political allies in AgriBiz can't be challenged, and independent farmers can be destroyed, lessening competition for your corporate loyalists.
Do you have a sense of how effective the nitrogen mitigation is? I would assume that the Dutch would be among the best in the world at such mitigation given (a) their general awesomeness; and (b) their country is so tiny that any pollution would be a huge problem.
I'm afraid I don't know that level of specificity.
I genuinely did not know that, thank you. It still would make more sense to find ways to do farming without as much emissions then closing them down. Removing food production seems so illogical.
That's because it is, and is an entirely superfluous excuse to seize the food supply.
In the real world, soil ecology is super important to... farming, so the farmers will likely have a good incentive not to waste nitrogen (as it means wasted fertilizer), and don't want to harm their own waterways. Those incentives weren't taken because the point is to close farms.