@HistoPol (1/1)
first
#and foremost ought to be:
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stop eating meat,
#as more than 3/4 of crops grown go to feeding livestock and
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they are at this point
#an entirely unnecessary dietary component
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the
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second thing to
#do is stop eating water-consumption-heavy crops that no one really needs, like almonds and cashews, which per-serving require about as much water to produce
#as beef
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(that is to say, some ten times more than alternative "protein" sources, like chickpeas, toufu, and
#peas)
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and are a significant factor in the colorado
#river#
#having# run dry
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and finally (after resource use has been already cut in half by
#the above simple changes) @on the "technological investment" front there are indoor farming and aggressive genetic engineering, which paired together could move staple crops indoors,
#removing need of pesticides, preventing toxic
#run#off and recapturing the
#nitrogen fertilisers in particular which are washed away so easily
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anything else people preach on this matter (permaculture etc)
#is essentially wishful thinking