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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The columns of tractors that have blocked the roads of France and Germany in recent weeks are nothing new.They are just the latest wave of a growing protest by European farmers against some decisions by national and European governments to protect nature from pollution generated by agricultural production and livestock farming.For some of them, already in difficulty due to the energy crisis and the consequences of the pandemic, paying higher taxes for the pollution produced is unsustainable.Others say they feel overwhelmed by bureaucracy and that they are unheard and misunderstood by city dwellers who eat the food they grow without knowing where it comes from.In agricultural giants such as the Netherlands and France, farmers have expressed frustration at pressure from governments to produce less, after years of encouragement to produce more. “In recent years we have exp...