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I don’t see how burning huge rainforest areas for monoculture corn plantations that now produce part of the insecticides that you use on their own and that you
by legulere 6y ago
I don’t see how burning huge rainforest areas for monoculture corn plantations that now produce part of the insecticides that you use on their own and that you use tons of herbicides on to keep everything else out is in any way leading to more sustainability.
- evgen 6y agoIf you are going to create a strawman at least get it right. The rainforests are being burned to grow soybeans, not corn.
- pegasus 6y agoIs it a strawman though? It's all tied together, the fixation with using our technological prowess to increase yield at all costs leads to these types of solutions: monocultures, GMO crops, weather engineering. Even though our understanding of the "solutions" is many times ridiculously poor. But it seems to work... somehow... for now. And by "work", what's meant is that it maximizes a metric which is ultimally chosen to maximize the wealth of an economic agent. It's what got us into this climatic bind. We need to take a step back and look at the root of the problem. This article for example, points into a saner direction: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/06/enough-with-local-and-organic-well-begin-to-eat-well-when-we-farm-well https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/06/enough...
- kickout 6y agoYes. Correct. Thank you @evgen. Brazil == soybeans mostly. Those slashed rainforest acres are being chopped with safrinha corn in mind. Those statements by the parent are an easy filter to someone not knowledgeable