You can't eat money either, and yet with money you can buy all the food you want since someone somewhere will want to exchange the money for food.
And as much as people complain about technology companies being spoiled, farmers as a whole generally have to be forced to not do things that are extremely dangerous to the environment. Pumping out all the water they have in an aquifer. Continually irrigating until their soil becomes salt. Spraying poisons on monocultures until everything around them looks the same and 3 horrific hard to kill insect types are left plaguing everything. Avoiding crop rotations and plowing early so all their soil blows/washes away. Growing crops that drink 100x the water of native plants, etc, etc, etc.
Yes, we absolutely need food to survive. Does it have to be almonds and cows? Probably not. Don't let farmers as a whole act like they are some pro-ecological force here to save the world either, as everything to keep them from damaging the planet has been forced on them too.
"Farmers" is doing some work here. You mean corporations.
We get regulations because both individuals and corporations tend to maximize the short term while intentionally neglecting or being ignorant of the long term consequences. Farmers reaped the rewards of the green revolution, but it came at a pretty great cost.
He's been doing it decades now, after the first 4-5 years he dropped all his small holding farmers are good and honest talk.
Verify, always verify. It's easy to tell simple and wrong stories if you neglect verification. You want someone to be honest, have a track record of verification and contracts to back it up.
And a 100kWh Li-Ion battery (~$14000) needs just about 10 kg of lithium (~$100).
You could look at this: ...
https://www.bmwgroup.com/content/dam/grpw/websites/bmwgroup_...
... and read the Conclusion, and note that the study was not too fussed about delivering bad news. That Conclusion is a masterclass in hiding stuff. You will actually have to read the entire paper and its all a load of fluff. Shame really.
altairprime•2mo ago