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If you are a farmer your entire life revolves around planting your crops with heavy machinery[0], fertilizing[1] your crops with heavy machinery, harvesting you
by jeffreyrogers 5y ago
If you are a farmer your entire life revolves around planting your crops with heavy machinery[0], fertilizing[1] your crops with heavy machinery, harvesting your crops with heavy machinery, and then transporting your crops to storage/processing by truck, rail, or barge. All of which require massive fossil fuel inputs. So I would say "completely upending their life" is a fair assessment.
Edit: Would love to hear your detailed alternatives though.
[0]: Requires lots of fuel.
[1]: Fertilizer is a produced from natural gas or mined using heavy machinery.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoBut if all of your competition has the exact same impacts, I don’t understand the problem. Unless there is some other way to get food besides farming?
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoThat's sort of my point. Any change on the scale required to affect climate change would require a massive upheaval of the industry so it isn't going to happen anytime soon.