silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: collapse@sopuli.xyz
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 · 1 month agomessage-square3linkfedilinkcross-posted to: collapse@sopuli.xyz
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-up0·1 month agoWe don’t have to use as much. Manure still works its more work though and farmers love to optimize.
minus-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWith how the title is phrased, I’m tickled by the implication that we should eat sunlight and air instead.
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.
With how the title is phrased, I’m tickled by the implication that we should eat sunlight and air instead.