30% of China production is exported.
Growing tomatoes in December in huge greenhouses like you can see in many places in Netherlands is maybe not the smartest way to save energy.
There is literally nothing the Netherlands can do to materially affect global CO2 output at this point. The measures put forth are unserious in the face of real data.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
It's super easy to say "look I'm not to blame" when most of what you're doing is not at home.
Except for the intensive agriculture, most of the Dutch activity is in the 3rd sector, services. And in those services you have banks, oil companies, lobbying… (and also tax evaded ones, but that's another topic) that can be considered as the most impacting companies, even CO² wise, in the world.
So please, counting on the fact that Dutchies are not a lot of people and are putting solar panel on their roof is really missing 95% of the topic.
And all of their efforts combined, even if it were 100% successful, will be a drop in the bucket of the emissions coming from China.
The farmers are right to protest pointless austerity measures, especially since they’re growing food to keep people alive.