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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
The other complication is the energy intensity of agriculture. Industrialized agriculture is significantly more energy intensive than hand farming. A basket of berries grown on some remote hillside in Chile and shipped via containership is significantly less carbon intensive than anything grown around Calgary and trucked to your local farmer's market.
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Is it? I would have thought industrialized agriculture would be far more efficient. Maybe there are a few edge cases, but in general, industrial agriculture has to be far less resource intensive on a per unit basis.