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Grass is not America's largest crop, but it is by far the most wasteful. Agriculture in general, on the other hand, needs a lot of water, and we need agricultu
by vkou 2y ago
Grass is not America's largest crop, but it is by far the most wasteful.
Agriculture in general, on the other hand, needs a lot of water, and we need agriculture to stay alive. There are optimizations you can make with regards to which kind of agriculture is done where.
If the only way you can grow almonds is by mining water out of an aquifer that will deplete in a decade, maybe we should go without almonds. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
- eru 2y ago> The juice is not worth the squeeze. Water pricing via water trading would help move these considerations of trade-offs to the private sector. > Agriculture in general, on the other hand, needs a lot of water, and we need agriculture to stay alive. Just as a silly nitpick: you can make food without agriculture. And it's not just via wild fishing, but also by directly producing edible substances from minerals, like producing margarine from coal. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#Coal_butter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#Coal_butter In general, you are obviously right, though.