"Environmentally focused governments worldwide are concentrating on reducing agricultural production..."

"[Rural ]inhabitants ... and the farming that flourishes there ... face an extraordinarily well-funded green movement that is now depicting 'industrial farming' as one of the principal villains in their ever-expanding climate melodrama. Although greens may support the notion of small farmers using artisanal methods, and the wealthy certainly can afford the much higher food prices, niche farming cannot support most farming communities or provide ordinary consumers with reasonably priced groceries....
    "Environmentally focused governments are concentrating on reducing agricultural production.... Efforts to reduce agricultural output ... could have particularly serious consequences for billions in the developing world....
    "Climate scientist Judith Curry ... suggests that reliance on wind and solar energy will consume an ever-growing fraction of the planet’s surface, particularly in rural or wilderness areas....
    "Given its dependence on the elements and low energy density, solar and wind would need to expand in a way requiring millions of acres of rural and small-town land. Jesse Jenkins, an assistant professor at Princeton University, recently suggested that the amount of land required to accommodate the roughly 800 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity to achieve a 'net zero' America would require 'roughly the area of Tennessee'...
    "Attempts by urban policy-makers to ... constrain [rural producers] can only generate further rural resentment, while causing devastating drops in agricultural and natural-resource production. This may be fine for the governing class and its allies, but it spells disaster not only for rural residents but for billions of people who lack basic necessities and justifiably seek a better life."

~ Joel Kotkin, from his article 'Energy Colonialism Will worsen the Urban-Rural Divide' [hat tip Tom Hunter]