Sorry–organic farming is worse for climate change

Post by franzmafka » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 9:30 PM UTC

Nicksil wrote: post #8

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Organic farming absolutely uses pesticides and herbicides. In fact they often must use more of it and at greater frequency than conventional farming methods because the organic variants are inferior. Got a citation for that? I've always been under the impression that organic farming by definition doesn't use pesticides and herbicides, and that's why they're more expensive. The yields are lower because of some crops…

Information on herbicide/pesticide use in organic farming is abundant. A quick search ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=organic+farming ) will yield plenty to begin research. Due diligence is necessary given the mass of mis/dis-information, turning fact-finding into a much more difficult process for the laymen (like me) than it should be, but seek many sources, develop a consensus. HN user "widowlark" posted ( https://news…

Post by octokatt » Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 1:47 AM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #9

octokatt wrote: post #6

From the article, it sounds like less-intensive farming techniques are needed to help carbon storage, of which organic farming can help. It follows that the other step needed to shore this up is to have less food waste, more local food, and most likely eat less meat per-capita. I'm not sure why the end interpretation of the study was "this is entirely useless" instead of "this is one step". It's a little like saying…

I wonder where the authors get their funding from. My Dad sent me an article written by a friend of his that said that global warming is a non issue, etc. I did some research on my Dad’s friend and it turned out that the organization he helped start gets their funding from the oil industry, information that was not easy to find. Authors of papers and articles that purport to talk about scientific results should have…