Someday in the future lefty Utopia
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Wait, are we sure this is lefty utopia? This is talking about self-sufficiency of growing our own, having more direct purchases from farmers and not being reliant on corporate conglomerates for sustenance.
This sounds like a RIGHT utopia as I would kill to have space and time for a vegetable and fruit garden and my own beehive. Hell while we at it, give some chickens too. This would be hell for leftists as the more self-sufficient you are, the less likely you are going to conform to a group as you don't need them to survive.
Hundreds of thousands already do this, and as far as I can tell the small truck-patch farmer with a sideline of raising chickens is still doing pretty well.
In some major cities downtown farmers' markets do exceptionally well because they can jack their prices up, and city-bred-and-bound yuppies can't tell and don't care.
Given we are over 7 billion Humans now
It's not our job to feed 7 billion people
Never said it was, just that we should have in the million range of people even growing their own herbs which is the stage I'm at.
Doing any little measure for some self reliance should be all our goals.
Fun little statistic, if you ripped up half of the yard grass and half of the horse farms in the U.S. and turned them into no-till farm land, you would double the U.S. agricultural output, and halve our CO2 emissions.
I don't believe this for a second. It sounds like typical anti-single-family-home-with-decent-yard nonsense.
It's got to be making extremely generous assumptions about yields and what could be realistically be grown in the climate. A lot of yards also have trees or other shade features that aren't great for gardens. Are we supposed to cut those down while we're at it?
There’s a YouTube channel called epic gardening that did this
I’m sure there are others, but that’s the biggest one I know
The hardest part of gardening is what to do with all your produce. You really have to learn about canning, preserving, etc.
Gardening takes a lot more time and money than people think. But I love it and do it yearly
Even if that were true, are we going to legislate the Sun itself to add 4-6 hours to the day to give people the time to work and harvest that?
Because that's why things ended up moving away from that in the first place. Once you had to go to work instead of working around your own home and land, you no longer had the time to care for your own land while also having a family and time for any leisure.
I'd throw in golf courses.
I was thinking of the US.
When they complained about it being illegal to grow your own produce I knew it wasn't a leftist. Leftists don't dare criticize laws or government overreach unless it's a distinctly right wing government making it illegal to groom children.
At worst, this could be a reasonable person who's been tricked into thinking communism is what they want even though it's actually the opposite. Being reasonable, they'll figure it out when they grow up.
That's leftist tactic number 1, vaguely define something so that so many people are counted as part of the group and claim a false majority. They've done that with everything from environment, abortion, education, immigration, the list goes on..
I don't agree at all, making up laws in their heads and pretending they're real is a very leftist thing to do.
Its a lefty utopia because its just general feel good and "suburbia bad" whining without any understanding of why things ended up that way, the consequences of stopping it, and literally no solution offered other than "do better, fix it!!"
There are places where the Left and Right come to the same "its a problem" and even "here is the best endgoal" but the path to it and reason they tread it are miles apart.
Cities were designed without a bunch of uh zombies walking around them. Nobody wants to live in close proximity under diversity. IRL people are fleeing cities and suburbs.
It's definitely a lefty in the post. Lefties hate big agricultural companies and like the "fair trade" marketing nonsense. There just happens to be overlap in some ways between leftist environmentalists, and the righty self-sufficient crowd. Same with "GMOs are poison", there's plenty of people on both sides that believe that.
you're doing it for freedom from a system that increasingly shows how much they hate you, and abuses power/corruption to steal from you. the more you detach from them, the less they can steal.
when you talk about leftist utopias, you're talking about the ideals of the 1960s/1970s hippie communes that did it for nebulous claims that if you do all veggies/fruits yourself, it's somehow more efficient than a factory farm which has direct profit incentives to milk every penny of efficiency.
this isn't modern leftism. modern leftists would say the government banning local food production is for your safety... because THEY don't know how to grow a strawberry safely, no one is allowed to do so.