On the one hand I can totally relate, agriculture (not just ranchers but crop agriculture as well) and environmental well-being are often at odds with each other. However, I can understand where ranchers and farmers are coming from as well, as ranching is their livelihood and a serious setback like …

I think that implying that [image] localnaturespotter: non-Western countries and their impacts on the environment are somehow worse than the environmental impacts of Western countries is unfair. Even though it is true that environmental regulation is often less restrictive in industrializin…

[image] sethshively: The word “childfree,” which perfectly encapsulates that sentiment, has become a part of semi-mainstream vocabulary. Yes, as an expression of people’s own feelings and to push back against the existing pressure to have children (from family and society at large) that was a…

[image] jasonhernandez74: I see no inherent reason why frozen produce has to be transported long distances. I agree. Eating local would include frozen food, though frozen produce is not really a thing here. (I suspect my refrigerator is smaller than many of the members’ though it is quite nor…

The quinoa boom was therefore a welcome income boost to female farmers who had little in the way of alternative income sources. … trade has resulted in a reduction of diversity of quinoa production into 20 or so improved varieties. In the altiplano, subsistence farmers have cultivated up to 60 di…

Don’t worry. The way things are going, there would be no middle class left to overconsume.

[image] jasonhernandez74: That just means that the wealthy class will take over the former middle class’ overconsumption (in addition to their own overconsumption). No they can’t. Even if they buy 100 cars, they can only drive one at a time. They won’t dine in 100 restaurants at the same time…

[image] vbjanos: They won’t dine in 100 restaurants at the same time. As a subatomic particle, I could do that. Quantum Superposition is fun! (Joking pls dont actually do this if you don’t want to harm the planet)

Yes but Bezos fiance’s hen do. 11 minutes in outer space … how many restaurants, how many cars. How many hens, sigh.

There used to be a great war every 30-60 years. Space exploration saved us from the one that was due 15 years ago: empires expanded upwards instead of sideways.

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That just means that the wealthy class will take over the former middle class’ overconsumption (in addition to their own overconsumption).

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