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There are in fact about 7.8 billion of us. I believe we will have to change from this <1% of the population growing all the food. Growing part of your own food
by yesbabyyes 7y ago
There are in fact about 7.8 billion of us. I believe we will have to change from this <1% of the population growing all the food.
Growing part of your own food is a good idea. We should all plant some potatoes this year – a not so laborious way of producing nutritious food.
- pjc50 7y agoKind of Maoist and inefficient to have all your specially trained valuable first world labour do manual work, badly.
- jfk13 7y agoAs a specially trained valuable first world labourer -- at least, my employer seems to think I'm worth a salary -- I find growing my own potatoes (and a few other things) a welcome break from my desk and screen. I'm sure my garden is nowhere near as efficient as a real farmer could make it, but that's hardly the point. And a few rows of potatoes (even with my inefficient management), are a much more productive use of the land than a typical suburban lawn.
- loeg 7y agoDo it if you enjoy it, but that isn't the point GP was making or responding to. (I also maintain a small garden, FWIW.)
- yesbabyyes 7y agoIn fact, it is in part the point I want to make. It is a giving pursuit, in more ways than one.
- loeg 7y agoIn my comment, GP is pjc50; not you. You literally said that everyone should plant potatoes, which I, and pjc50, disagree with. As I said before, do it if you enjoy it; it's not a great use of everyone's time.
- pinkfoot 7y agoWait until you find our how little of the world's population builds and maintains the telecommunications, liquid fuel, and pharmaceutical ecosystems that we also reply on. Yours, David Ricardo