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[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

OK this article is infuriating, as is the product it's hyping up.

If 2.5% of our emissions is going toward feeding 4 billion people then I'm totally fine with letting those emissions continue. This isn't a thing we need to "solve," this reeks of a capitalist looking at graphs of our emissions and going "we could cut emissions by 1% here and not have to actually change our habits at all!" This isn't the problem causing climate change.

The energy sector accounts for over 70% of our emissions. Instead of trying to stop emitting less than 1% by pouring money into genetically manipulating plants to need less fertilizer, why don't we instead cut 30% or more by replacing coal plants with solar, wind, and nuclear power?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

High tech technology, aka humans, can also decide not to use it

[–] RockyBockySocky@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

If everyone went plant based we would need much much less farmland and thus need way less fertilizer.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could just stop using it... no need for a technological fix.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

okay let's just kill the poorest people on the planet, good plan

4 billion people would die / wouldn’t be able to eat

I like notill gardening. You don't need any chemical fertilizers. Grows great pot 🤌

[–] zoe@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Dora the explorer: can we fix it ? yes we can!