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Because you can't feed NY or SF with 'hippy-feel-good-low-tech'.
by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Because you can't feed NY or SF with 'hippy-feel-good-low-tech'.
- spraak 9y agoYou really could. Permaculture is much more productive in the long term than the current dominant agriculture methods.
- forgotpwtomain 9y agoAt $9 per pound of tomatoes? I think the claim that it can, and do so affordably needs a reference to somewhere it actually does.
- spraak 9y agoThen please reference what you mean by $9 per pound for tomatoes and the connexion to permaculture. Most likely you're mistaking permaculture for something else (e.g. "organic") or drawing unsubstantiated conclusions
- schiffern 9y agoThe problem is, conventional agriculture can't feed NY or SF in the long term. It is a system in the process of destroying itself (which is all that the word "unsustainable" means, after all). Expensive tomatoes are preferable to desertification of the continent (which is what the deforestation, soil loss, and overgrazing due to agriculture cause). What do you think shutting down North America's water cycle will do to the GDP? Compared to paying more for groceries (a tiny sliver of GDP), it's an economic no-brainer.
- spraak 9y agoThank you for explaining that