silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days 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-square55linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-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 · 8 days agomessage-square55linkfedilink
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days 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-square0tan0d@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoWe don’t have to use as much. Manure still works its more work though and farmers love to optimize.
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoBut for manure you need the animals in first place, which we should also be trying to reduce, unless you mean goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
minus-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days 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-up0·8 days agoWe essentially already do, there are just a whole bunch of steps in between
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.
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 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
I like goats!
Me too! Baaaaaaaaa!
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