silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoThe pain from the Strait of Hormuz crisis will be felt far beyond the pump | Four billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.www.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down12
arrow-up1239arrow-down1external-linkThe pain from the Strait of Hormuz crisis will be felt far beyond the pump | Four billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.www.vox.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-21 day agoWe essentally eat fossil fuels (fertilizer, mechanized tilling and harvesting, transformation, packaging, transportation), right? That’s how bad this is. But green/regenerative/low-processing/local can mitigate the risk of these disruptions.
minus-squarepet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoWith how the title is phrased, I’m tickled by the implication that we should eat sunlight and air instead.
minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·18 hours agoWe essentially already do, there are just a whole bunch of steps in between
minus-square0tan0d@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoWe don’t have to use as much. Manure still works its more work though and farmers love to optimize.
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoBut for manure you need the animals in first place, which we should also be trying to reduce, unless you mean goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
We essentally eat fossil fuels (fertilizer, mechanized tilling and harvesting, transformation, packaging, transportation), right? That’s how bad this is. But green/regenerative/low-processing/local can mitigate the risk of these disruptions.
With how the title is phrased, I’m tickled by the implication that we should eat sunlight and air instead.
We essentially already do, there are just a whole bunch of steps in between
We don’t have to use as much. Manure still works its more work though and farmers love to optimize.
But for manure you need the animals in first place, which we should also be trying to reduce, unless you mean goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐