• @blazera@lemmy.world
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    311 month ago

    The more you grow and eat at home, the less the food industry needs to burn fuel to ship. I know you folks in the US hate doing anything to help out with the world, but if you took the saying of be the change you want to see, imagine the tens of millions of acres being wasted on lawns being put to environmental and nutritional use. Imagine instead of putting leaves into plastic bags to get shipped to a landfill, or burning, houses normalized having compost piles. You get to put waste paper and cardboard in there too instead of bagging it.

    I challenge all of yall to grow beans this season. They grow fast, they grow easy, theyre pretty nutritionally complete, they fertilize your soil themselves. Make use of your land.

    • @SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Yup we should normalize gardening and canning. It’s a thing my grandparents knew. Their families survived times of world wars, dust bowls and the great depression. They probably didn’t have much choice in the moment but even when times got better they kept up a wonderful little garden. Kid me didn’t get why they didn’t just buy the things they needed.

      I love the conveniences of modern farming and I use it every day. But like all big industialized systems they can be fragile. Covid was a huge problem for a lot of indistries and thankfully farming wasn’t really one of them. But if it was countless people would have struggled.

      I’m not really a prepper or anything crazy but I don’t want to forget the lessons learned just a few decades ago- gardening is great and worth the effort.

    • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It makes sense for it to be the same as solar power: just because most of energy generation is done in big facilities and even some kinds of solar generation (such as solar concentrators) can only be done in large facilities, doesn’t make having some solar panels providing part of one’s needs (or even all of one’s needs for some of the time) less cost effective in Economic terms or a good thing in Ecologic terms.

      So it makes sense to grow some of one’s food, but maybe not go as far as raise one’s own beef or even aim for food self sufficiency, both for personal financial reasons and health reasons. That it’s also good in Ecological terms (can lower the use of things like pesticides and definitelly reduces transportation needs) is just icing on the cake.

    • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      Imagine instead of putting leaves into plastic bags to get shipped to a landfill, or burning, houses normalized having compost piles.

      I appreciate your argument but there’s no need to throw in a strawman. Leaves in plastic bags have been illegal in most US states for decades. Yard waste must be in paper bags.

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      -111 month ago

      What a bullshit blanket rude comment. Lots of folks in the US are working hard to affect change at their personal and local level. You should edit your comment because it’s nationalistic and disparaging.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          Again that doesn’t change shit. My point is that a nation is not a monolith.

          You wouldn’t make a statement like they did about a race, or a people from another country, so it isn’t appropriate here either.

          Edit It is simply untrue that all Americans “hate to help the world”, and therefore that statement is bullshit.

        • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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          -21 month ago

          Don’t leave out Australia and Canada, since Australia is worse and Canada is next on the list after the USA.

          Go ahead and tell everybody how Australia, USA, and Canada are such bad countries.

          Meanwhile, with the freedom afforded to me as a land owner in the USA I work from home, harvest solar energy with solar panels to run my electronics, and am growing my own produce and eggs in a backyard farm. As an individual I’m probably doing more for the environment than most people reading this whole Lemmy post.

          • @KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
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            01 month ago

            Lol. Check your privilege.

            A. Do a carbon footprint analysis of your life, if it’s above 2,5 tons coe/year you’re a net burden on the planet. My country is as well, although considerably lower than the US.

            B. It is possible for you to be a paragon of environmentalism and still live in a country with inefficient systems for water, infrastructure, zoning, industry and food production. Not to mention live in a culture of unsustainable lifestyle. Many Chinese or Indian persons are simply too poor to have a major impact on the environment, but their national industrial practices drive up the average pollution to levels comparable to the US (although still lower). Most US people aren’t as poor, and also have shitty industry standards, and also the means to change that without losing your standing internationally.

            C. Multiple countries are shitty, in fact most of the non-developing world countries are a net burden.

            D. As opposed to the other countries at the top, the US has had the economy, data, and access to resources to be able to something about it for generations, whereas most have had half the time and considerable need of modernising.

            E. The US is much larger than the other countries, and could with quite simple measures make great impact and help pressure other great polluters.

            • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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              01 month ago

              I checked my privilege, and found that it was cool. I don’t have a carbonometer to check the other stuff so you can work on that if you want.