Kees van der Leun on Nostr: Amazing 5-page story on how an American election and climate-denier and a Dutch ...

Amazing 5-page story on how an American election and climate-denier and a Dutch special interest scientist helped derail the political debate on reducing nitrogen deposition from livestock farming, although the basic facts are known since the 1970s.
Classic merchants of doubt.

Read it! In NRC today, by Tom-Jan Meeus (npub1k0v…v0j3) . Online version here: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/09/06/hoe-trumps-wereld-invloed-kreeg-op-het-nederlandse-stikstofbeleid-a4864808

#biodiversity #nitrogen