Elon Musk Declares Don't Punish Farmers Amid Climate Change Action

Tesla CEO Elon Musk once said that "climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces this century." 

Earlier this month, Musk unveiled the third part of his Master Plan, which outlines how Tesla can help achieve the goal of evolving the global economy to a run on 100% clean and renewable sustainable energy by 2050.

He said the "earth can and will move to a sustainable energy economy, and will do so in your lifetime."

Keeping up the momentum of his focus on the energy economy and environmental requirements, Musk responded to the farmers' protest in Belgium in a tweet.

A Twitter user tweeted a short video of the farmer protest. 

Belgium… farmers have had enough of this climate fraud. RESIST pic.twitter.com/AejKIxXlb0

— Pelham (@Resist_05) March 3, 2023

Musk responded to the tweet, saying, "we don't need to put farmers out of work to solve climate change."

I’m super pro climate, but we definitely don’t need to put farmers out of work to solve climate change. Not at all.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 4, 2023

One of Musk's followers responded to his tweet and said that farmers know the land better than anyone else. 

Putting farmers out of work would cause massive global famines. Politicians need to stop trying to interfere in our work, farmers know the land better than anyone else in the world. And we care about the environment more than most people too. https://t.co/q5z5QHDUhH

— Clairina Paquette (@ClairinaPaq) March 5, 2023

However, contrary to Musk's concern, Belgium farmers are protesting over a plan proposed by the Flemish government and not rejecting the climate efforts. 

According to a report by the Street, the Flemish government is planning to reduce nitrogen emissions and threatening to close the most polluting farms.

Local media has reported that the government's initial plan was to close 41 intensive farms near protected areas and ask thousands of other farmers to reduce their nitrogen emissions, the outlet reported. 

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