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Do you believe we should continue mining and burning coal? It's bad, but if we close all the coal mines and factories, a lot of people will lose their way of li
by namuol 8y ago
Do you believe we should continue mining and burning coal? It's bad, but if we close all the coal mines and factories, a lot of people will lose their way of life.
Large-scale farming (which vastly dominates the rural land mass of the US) has similarly dramatic downsides.
- squish78 8y agoLike I said, I know nothing about the coal industry so I can't offer an informed opinion. Commercial farming covers an order of magnitude more land and employment than energy extraction. There are alternative energies to coal. There are not alternatives to food. Urban agriculture is a logistical impossibility without removing all meat, dairy, corn, wheat, and soy from the world's food supply.
- namuol 8y agoWhy must everything be absolute? You can have urban farming and rural farming. Urban farming would obviously have to happen gradually, so start with easier stuff. It's not "impossible". The point is that it will reduce pressure from rural areas which are going to be stressed significantly in the coming decades.