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are you looking to move to the country side with more land so you can be more self sufficient Isn't that a terrible thing to do from environmental perspective.
by dagw 8y ago
are you looking to move to the country side with more land so you can be more self sufficient
Isn't that a terrible thing to do from environmental perspective. Surely using that land for smartly run large scale industrial farms that ship their produce to large distribution points in the center of dense cities could produce far more calories pr. total gram of greenhouse gas emitted.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoYes. I suppose the other way of looking at it is smartly run and managed farms feeding dense cities is a solution for a world where politicians, countries and corporations are doing something substantive about climate change. A world where the supply chains won't break, and the little people won't bear the brunt. In the world we actually occupy, moving to some rural high ground with a few acres, and as off-grid as possible, to weather a possible Mad Max future looks less and less idiotic.
- uxcolumbo 8y agoI was thinking more of permaculture [1], which apparently is better for the environment than our current soil degrading farming practices. I'm just trying to understand whether there is a real near term danger that will impact global food security. The US practically pulled out of the paris agreement and do we think the world leaders will take climate change seriously to avert disaster? If not, how will this impact us little people and what should the strategy be. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture