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You’re right about the acute pollution from the fossil fuel industry. The affects are not distributed evenly. We need to solve that. Climate change is already
by vegetablepotpie 4y ago
You’re right about the acute pollution from the fossil fuel industry. The affects are not distributed evenly. We need to solve that.
Climate change is already affecting us, we’ve lost a lot of agricultural productivity because of it, and it’s going to get worse faster than it has in the past.
Both these issues have their roots in fossil fuel extraction. If we can eliminate the extraction, we solve both issues.
- kodah 4y agoIn California (which this article and thread are about) agriculture is actually up in terms of productivity and down in terms of water utilization. The problem is the solvency of Ag's GDP value on the state register, which went from 5% to 2%, is not up. I'm not sure agriculture is really affected as much by fossil fuels as it is by economic pressure and water cost/benefit ratios given the economic pressure.
- forum_ghost 4y agoFossil fuel again is a misdirection. Neonics, BPA, DDT and all sorts of other fun stuff would exist without fossil fuels. Semiconductor manufacturing gaves is few superfund sites in the US. Nothing to do with fossil fuels either. The big problem is total lack of liability. You can dump millions of actual toxins and poison literally billions and no jail time for anyone involved, not even a token patsy.