On the day after Earth Day, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry claimed on MSNBC‘s Inside with Jen Psaki that farmers can expect to see their “crops ripped away” or “their homes destroyed” due to climate change.
“It is getting hotter and there is going to be more intensive weather events. It will cost us a lot more money,” Kerry said on Sunday.
“As that happens, a lot more people are going to see their farms — you know, their crops ripped away or their homes destroyed. You watch the pressure grow,” the former senator said.
Kerry added, “I believe we are in a transformational moment. I think this will be one of, if not, the top issues in the 2024 presidential election. No question in my mind.”
The former secretary of state called former President Donald Trump’s work on the climate issue “a non-stewardship of anything” and claimed he had “zero money in the budget for climate.” He claimed that because Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Biden administration had to reestablish “credibility” for the United States on the issue.
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Gabriella Hoffman, a conservative conservationist and environmentalist, slammed the climate envoy’s comments on Psaki’s MSNBC show.
“The SEC scope 3 emissions rule will destroy family farms and ranches by deeming them unsavory for not complying with obtuse regulations and create food scarcity. Oh, and net zero is equally destructive. Whenever this eco-hypocrite speaks, he spews more than livestock,” she said on Twitter.
The SEC scope 3 emissions rule will destroy family farms and ranches by deeming them unsavory for not complying with obtuse regulations and create food scarcity. Oh, and net zero is equally destructive. Whenever this eco-hypocrite speaks, he spews more than livestock. https://t.co/QD4V6YStHl
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) April 23, 2023
The Biden administration proposed a rule in March 2022 through the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require public companies to include climate-related disclosures in their financial statements. The disclosure called “Scope 3” emissions would force companies to report indirect emissions from upstream and downstream activities in their supply chains.
This would impact small and mid-sized farm operations who do not the resources to track and report the emissions data for publicly traded companies using their agricultural products.
Other social media users reacted to Kerry’s predictions on climate change’s impact to farmers.
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“Almost true. Farmers will have their crops taken away and destroyed due to climate change ‘regulations.’ So close,” another social media user wrote linking to an article about how Dutch famers have been in a months-long battle with their government’s restrictive climate regulations that have been pressuring them to cut nitro pollution by 2030. The government’s crack down on Dutch farmers, the world’s second-largest food exporter, would force them to sacrifice their agricultural productivity and livestock in order to lower emissions.
President Biden signed an executive order on Friday directing all federal agencies to make it their “mission” to work toward “environmental justice for all.” His order creates a White House Office of Environmental Justice to “better protect overburdened communities from pollution and environmental harms.”
