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Re: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than conventional

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Post by luckydoug » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

Everything is a step toward a goal. You will own NOTHING. Useless Eliters will OWN YOU. A boot stomping on a human face forever.

we are in the 'cull teh useless eaters' phase now. Ukraine, palestine, white nations with the bioweapon injections and third world invading army, toxic particulate sprayed from planes, toxins in food and water... and on it goes

The plan is GENOCIDE, ASSET-STRIP, ENSLAVE. BANKERS. they use I.O.U's from insolvent foreign bankers to finance all the killing. The suckers call those worthless I.O.U.'s Dollars. Imagine pushing a button and instantly with no cost, creating a trillion "dollars" in an account and then handing it out to your friends to buy up Property from under the people, or weapons to kill their neighbors. GENOCIDE ASSET-STRIP ENSLAVE

Re: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than conventional

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Post by lukas099 » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

throwaway22032 wrote: post #31

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".

Some 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.

Re: Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than conventional

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Post by lukas099 » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 11:12 PM UTC

lukas099 wrote: post #42

throwaway22032 wrote: post #31

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".

Some 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.

Also, 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.