OTOH, the only way to make agriculture environmentally sustainable and not physically backbreaking for the people who are still needed for manual labor is to increase the agricultural labor pool and move to an organic-ish production system (organic ag has brainworms and synthetic fertilizers aren’t inherently the devil).
OTOH, I do not trust RFK Jr. with the responsibility of implementing it.
Yeah, its predecessor was biodynamic ag, which had all this weird stuff incorporating the zodiac and belief in vitalism and burying whole ass animals in your fields. The only really useful bits are “don’t saturate the environment with chemicals” and “support soil organic matter content”
The other innovation of biodynamic gardening was, “you can plant things closer together than we were taught”, and like, yeah that’s probably some ancient technique we just forgot and had to relearn.
Yeah, the European settlers in the Americas were pretty bad at doing agriculture. Reading accounts of the early colonists observing native agriculture is kinda entertaining; it’s all stuff like “OMG guys they’re producing so much food! How are they doing this while we’re literally starving over here, their corn ears are enormous!”
No it actually doesn’t all their “science” was bullshit to justify horrific crimes against humanity. This take is literally Nazi apologia, in case you were unaware.
OTOH, the only way to make agriculture environmentally sustainable and not physically backbreaking for the people who are still needed for manual labor is to increase the agricultural labor pool and move to an organic-ish production system (organic ag has brainworms and synthetic fertilizers aren’t inherently the devil).
OTOH, I do not trust RFK Jr. with the responsibility of implementing it.
Also “organic farming” was invented by a Nazi lol
Yeah, its predecessor was biodynamic ag, which had all this weird stuff incorporating the zodiac and belief in vitalism and burying whole ass animals in your fields. The only really useful bits are “don’t saturate the environment with chemicals” and “support soil organic matter content”
The other innovation of biodynamic gardening was, “you can plant things closer together than we were taught”, and like, yeah that’s probably some ancient technique we just forgot and had to relearn.
Yeah, the European settlers in the Americas were pretty bad at doing agriculture. Reading accounts of the early colonists observing native agriculture is kinda entertaining; it’s all stuff like “OMG guys they’re producing so much food! How are they doing this while we’re literally starving over here, their corn ears are enormous!”
tbf corn is a heavy feeder and hard to grow, but yeah, only because we foolishly gave up on any kind of traditional methods.
ancient civilizations arising every time they get good at growing corn
my dumb ass trying to grow corn
My condolences on your maize troubles. I don’t have the space for it :(
Well it’s also a tropical grass they were growing as far north as New York, so they were well outside the native bioregion.
To be fair, a lot of science goes back to Nazi discoveries too. Turns out zero ethics allows you to work in horribly efficient ways.
No it actually doesn’t all their “science” was bullshit to justify horrific crimes against humanity. This take is literally Nazi apologia, in case you were unaware.