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Originally Posted by 81MC
90% of America’s crop land is gmo, majority of which is used for livestock feed. It sure as #### is not organic produce eaters that are leading ‘land waste’ (as if actually growing food that goes into our mouths is land ‘waste’.) |
I think your stats are off a little bit, there are only like 12 crops that have approved GMOs on the market, 90% of those crops are GMOs, but all of the other cultivars are 100% not GMO. Also Non-GMO and Organic are different distinctions, even if both them are pure marketing nonsense.
I just mean if you're going after solar, because of "land use", in scare quotes because everyone knows you are just pulling at straws to find an attack to fit your narrative. Then you need to look squarely the BS marketing ploys we all constantly suffer from like organic food.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2...hful-thinking/
At the end of the day we need to be smart to maintain the lifestyle we would like to maintain, we need to do more with less everywhere. We need more food with less water, less fertilizer, less land, waste of land is an unfortunate word, but what we need is to conserve land.
We need more energy with less lifetime extraction cost, the way things are going that is largely going to look like big upfront capital expenses of renewables tech with very low marginal generation cost, like wind, solar or nuclear. Saying that solar is a waste of land isn't going to get us there, because in terms of energy generation it's an effective use of land, and we have pretty easy ready to use methods of clawing back that land from agriculture, like getting rid of the tens of millions of hectares of organic farms.