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Two things. 1. I hate how everything has to have a financialised solution: To achieve this, the report suggests “mobilizing international financial support”
by iceTA 4y ago
Two things.
1. I hate how everything has to have a financialised solution:
To achieve this, the report suggests “mobilizing international financial support” and implementing tools such as “fertilizer contract swaps” to keep farmer costs manageable.
2. I read articles like this and wonder, will the world ditch meat, or will will the richer countries continue to eat ridiculous amounts of the stuff, using up all the land that could grow food for a plant based diet? Something will have ti give at some point.
- debacle 4y agoRegenerative agriculture relies on poultry and livestock to restore the topsoil layer. Meat isn't going away. In fact, we may wind up eating more, not less, of it, over time.
- eru 4y ago> Regenerative agriculture relies on poultry and livestock to restore the topsoil layer. Why not use human excrement instead?
- debacle 4y ago"The use of untreated human feces in agriculture poses significant health risks and has contributed to widespread infection with parasitic worms—a disease called helminthiasis, affecting over 1.5 billion people in developing countries." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_feces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_feces
- another_story 4y agoIt's the same for using animal feces. There are ways to mitigate risk. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02811 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02811
- eru 4y agoYes, exactly. Who said anything about using human poop untreated?
- LesZedCB 4y agoyou don't have to consume the animals that contribute the the cycling of a healthy ecosystem... frame it as you like, but eating meat is literally only necessary because people want to.
- algoatecorn 4y agoDemand for meat is rising due to incomes level rising in developing nations. Developing nations also outnumber developed nations, so whatever climate-saving diet related behaviors the West decides to take is still going to face pressure from an even larger group of people who want to spend their growing paycheck on goods like meat.