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.
I was thinking of the US.
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.