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>Modern techniques grow more food, more cheaply, with lower economic footprint, less land used per output, less energy spent per calorie, etc... Right now, tha
by flyGuyOnTheSly 9y ago
>Modern techniques grow more food, more cheaply, with lower economic footprint, less land used per output, less energy spent per calorie, etc...
Right now, that is true.
But what happens when Dicamba stops working?
What happens when the next Dicamba stops working?
We will be forced to return to the old ways of farming eventually whether we like it or not.
And by old ways I'm talking about polyculture and basically just growing what's right for your region.
- adrianN 9y agoEventually we'll be good enough at genetic engineering to outpace evolutionary adaptions. We can't really go back to "The Old Ways". We wouldn't be able to feed everybody.
- pfisch 9y agoIf that happens it will be the worst disaster in the history of humanity. Like 20x worse than Mao's great leap forward.
- lqdc13 9y ago> Right now that is true It isn't though. > lower economic footprint, less land used per output, less energy spent per calorie Small farms are actually a lot more efficient than large farms in everything but man-hours. Think about it like this: If you had a 10 meters by 10 meters garden vs someone who had a 1km x 1km field. You would make sure every square cm in your garden is irrigated properly, that no insects are munching on your plants and each plant has the right amount of space and correct soil treatment for maximum yield. On a large farm, you cannot possibly do that. The total yield is a lot higher but the plants are not as healthy and are not living under optimal conditions.
- aaron695 9y agoWe are not far off robots that can for instance weed fields. We will do what we always do and adapt and continue to make the world a better place. The past is an awful awful place why would you ever want to go back there.