cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41392388
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/45149956
Ecofascism
https://www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blogs/far-right-and-the-environment-key-themes-of-ecofascism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
https://www.firstnations.org/our-programs/stewarding-native-lands/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264837722004963
But, don’t we already make way more food than even necessary? We just don’t transport it where needed. Instead we grow a shit ton of corn and make it into ethanol for fun and profit.
Source: I’m on lunch break and can’t be fucked to look again. Though yours isn’t sourced either so I don’t feel bad.
Yes. Don’t listen to them. The problem isn’t population. It is distribution. We overproduce for the sake of capitalism to such an extent that we can cut it in half tomorrow and our quality of life would not change in the slightest.
We have alternatives available. We simply do not use them because those who control the world economies would not be able to make obscene profits from it and it necessitates them giving up their ownership over the means of production in order to facilitate these collectively beneficial alternatives.
My understanding is the food production excess is “thanks” to unsustainable, damaging methods that rely heavily on synthetic fertilizer and have massive downsides like agricultural runoff and topsoil erosion (in addition to the wide-scale habitat loss required for those acres upon acres of farmland).
This. Truly sustainable practices require a considerably lower profit margin per acre, thereby forcing the parasitical middlemen to give farmers more without utterly hosing the consumer for all that they are worth.
And some overproduction is required to handle lean years. While you cannot keep fruit fresh for years, you can convert it into almost-analogous forms like flash-frozen in the field, within minutes of being picked, such that it can bridge the gap in lean years.
So there always will be some overproduction and some waste in the system, but not to the point where it needs to be intentionally made inedible so it cannot be given away, in order to create artificial scarcity to sustain market prices.