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Removing agriculture from the local economy is exactly the opposite of sustainable. Cheap, nutritious food is necessary for the sustainment of advanced economi
by engineer_22 3y ago
Removing agriculture from the local economy is exactly the opposite of sustainable.
Cheap, nutritious food is necessary for the sustainment of advanced economies. If you cannot produce food locally you're dependent on outside sources - a liability.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoNo human is ever going to eat the crops discussed in the article. It's feed grown entirely for livestock. There'd be much less concern if farmers in the Colorado river basin were growing the hyper-efficient flint corn, squash, and beans that have been farmed there for millennia.
- 20after4 3y agoSquash grows completely wild in the middle of the desert in New Mexico.
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