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I feel like this sort of analysis ignores the fact that this is a significant hobby and source of joy for many people. It's probably much more carbon intensive
by throwaway22032 3y ago
I feel like this sort of analysis ignores the fact that this is a significant hobby and source of joy for many people.
It's probably much more carbon intensive for me to build a bookshelf rather than buying an IKEA one.
I'm not really that interested in becoming a "perfectly optimal cog". If you follow that as a main goal, you end up plugged into VR on an IV drip or something because it's "carbon efficient".
- lukas099 3y agoSome people choose to grow food as a hobby partly because they believe it will help with climate change. Studies like this help them make a better-informed decision.
- lukas099 3y agoAlso, gardeners can use this information to guide how they go about it. I used to want to grow my own food, thinking I would be helping the environment. But I realized I probably couldn’t compete on efficiency with real farmers. So instead, I garden to provide ecosystem services with plants that foster native biodiversity. There isn’t a profit motive to doing this so it isn’t optimized like farming is.