> Fertilizers, pesticides, weed killers... All that comes from fossil fuels. Totally, but all of that also allows us not to have 30-50% of the population worki

> Fertilizers, pesticides, weed killers... All that comes from fossil fuels. Totally, but all of that also allows us not to have 30-50% of the population working in farming. If you have enough money and enough time, you can absolutely live with a smaller foot print by producing your own food, but it's not something that scales well. And I'd argue that you probably have skills that would serve humanity better if you applied them to larger problems than plucking weeds, that is: you could have a much larger impact on saving humanity/the planet/the universe/your soul by not producing the food yourself and spending the time you save on other things.