Al Gore is back. And he’s got ideas.

The former vice president jetted into Davos this week to share his thoughts on saving the planet. His latest brainstorm? Pay farmers to produce less food.

You read that right. In a world where grocery prices have families choosing between eggs and electricity, Al Gore thinks the real problem is that American farms are too productive.

The Davos Bubble

Every January, the richest people on Earth gather in a Swiss ski resort to decide how the rest of us should live. They fly in on private jets to lecture about carbon footprints. They eat gourmet steaks while discussing why you should switch to bug protein. They’ve never missed a meal in their lives, but they’re very concerned that farmers are growing too much food.

This year’s World Economic Forum asked the important question: “How Can We Avert a Climate Recession?”

Gore had answers. And they all involve making your life harder.

The Crop Insurance Shakedown

Here’s the scheme. The federal government subsidizes farmers through a program called crop insurance. Gore wants to flip the script — instead of helping farmers grow more food, he wants to use that money to incentivize them to grow less.

He dressed it up in fancy language about “regenerative agriculture” and “soil vitality.” But strip away the buzzwords and here’s what he actually said: farmers are producing too much, too fast, and the government should bribe them to stop.

“The incentives have been to produce as much as possible as quickly as possible, fence row to fence row,” Gore complained. Apparently that’s a bad thing now.

In Gore’s world, amber waves of grain are a climate crime. Abundant harvests are an environmental problem. The American farmer — who feeds this nation and half the globe — is the villain.

We’ve Seen This Movie Before

Think this sounds crazy? It already happened.

In 2022, the Dutch government forcibly shut down 3,000 farms to meet European Union climate targets. Not regulated them. Not taxed them. Shut them down. Farmers who’d worked the same land for generations were told to pack up because Brussels bureaucrats decided cows produce too much methane.

The Dutch people revolted. A pro-farmer party came out of nowhere and won 15 seats in parliament the next year. Turns out people don’t like it when elites destroy their food supply to appease climate models.

But the Davos crowd didn’t learn a thing. They just moved the conversation to America.

The Meat Is Next

Gore’s comments didn’t happen in isolation. The WEF has been gunning for your dinner plate for years.

At the 2023 meeting, Siemens chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe called for a billion people to stop eating meat. His pitch? Future fake proteins will “probably taste even better” than the real thing. They’ll be “zero carbon and much healthier.”

Sure, Jim. Lab-grown mystery paste will definitely replace a ribeye. Any day now.

These people genuinely believe they can engineer humanity’s diet from a conference room in Switzerland. They think if they just find the right policy levers, the right subsidies, the right regulations, they can wean eight billion people off of beef and onto whatever Franken-food their portfolio companies are developing.

And Gore is laying the groundwork. First you pay farmers to grow less. Then you pay them to grow different things. Then you regulate meat out of existence. Then you wake up one morning eating cricket flour and wondering what happened.

The Hypocrisy Is the Point

Let’s talk about Al Gore for a second.

This is a man who owns multiple mansions. Who flies private constantly. Whose carbon footprint could choke a small country. He made hundreds of millions of dollars selling his TV network to Al Jazeera — funded by Qatari oil money — and then kept right on lecturing everyone else about fossil fuels.

Now he’s worth an estimated $330 million, much of it from green energy investments that benefit directly from the policies he promotes. Funny how that works.

When Al Gore tells farmers to produce less, he’s not going to feel it. His fridge will stay full. His table will stay set. The pain lands on regular families watching grocery bills climb while some guy who hasn’t pumped his own gas in forty years explains why abundance is actually the problem.

What They’re Really Saying

Here’s the thing about Davos. They don’t hide it anymore. They just assume nobody’s paying attention.

Gore wants less food production. Snabe wants you to stop eating meat. The whole conference is built around the idea that regular people consume too much, travel too much, eat too much, and live too much — and the solution is always the same: give elites more control over your choices.

They call it saving the planet. But it’s really about power. Who decides what gets grown. Who decides what you eat. Who decides how you live.

And right now, they’re deciding it’s time for American farmers to do less.

The Bottom Line

American agriculture feeds the world. It’s one of the few things this country still does better than anyone else. Our farmers are the most productive in human history, and that productivity has lifted billions of people out of hunger.

Al Gore looks at that and sees a problem to be solved.

The rest of us should look at Al Gore and see a guy who got rich telling other people to sacrifice while he sacrificed nothing. A guy who lives like a king and preaches like a monk. A guy who thinks your family should pay more for groceries so his climate models look better.

Davos wants to pay farmers to grow less food.

Maybe we should pay Davos to have fewer meetings.