Native fetishization is kind of bullshit in age of climate change I get your point about growing what you can grow where you are within obvious limits but in a few years many native species will not grow in their historical regions and new shit will and soil quality and bearing vary a lot and regions with lots of 0people don’t always have best soil water and stuff for growing lots plants.
I agree reducing shipping is important and we need to eat less stupid but native is bullshit fetishism one of them oversimplification intellectual lacunae
This isn’t native fetishization, this is literally fighting climate change. Most native plants have survived far worse fluxations than anything that will happen in our lifetime (and I am a believer we’ll have a BOE by 2030), additionally this reduces water use, fertilization use, with the addition of the obvious less fuel use.
Yes, you will have to give up your almonds, which are killing California, and avacados, which are devastating communities across South America. Too bad. Native plants are literally designed over the last 200k years or more to be where they are. That includes more than one ice age.
I’m not defending almonds or avocados I said specifically stupid food I hate how accurate my name is sometimes I’m saying smart for climate needs to be more comprehensive and thought out than native especially if were going to be feeding huge populations with them we haven’t made vertical farming work yet but we might be stupid with that too blind fetishization of what has worked in the past will not get us through this even if its a good basic guideline starting point good regionally engineered well considered plants that may or may not have regional precedent new or ancient and updated styles of plant nurturing and a lot of luck are going to be necessary I’m not arguing for decadence here I’m saying more radical moves than native may be necessary
Native fetishization is kind of bullshit in age of climate change I get your point about growing what you can grow where you are within obvious limits but in a few years many native species will not grow in their historical regions and new shit will and soil quality and bearing vary a lot and regions with lots of 0people don’t always have best soil water and stuff for growing lots plants.
I agree reducing shipping is important and we need to eat less stupid but native is bullshit fetishism one of them oversimplification intellectual lacunae
This isn’t native fetishization, this is literally fighting climate change. Most native plants have survived far worse fluxations than anything that will happen in our lifetime (and I am a believer we’ll have a BOE by 2030), additionally this reduces water use, fertilization use, with the addition of the obvious less fuel use.
Yes, you will have to give up your almonds, which are killing California, and avacados, which are devastating communities across South America. Too bad. Native plants are literally designed over the last 200k years or more to be where they are. That includes more than one ice age.
I’m not defending almonds or avocados I said specifically stupid food I hate how accurate my name is sometimes I’m saying smart for climate needs to be more comprehensive and thought out than native especially if were going to be feeding huge populations with them we haven’t made vertical farming work yet but we might be stupid with that too blind fetishization of what has worked in the past will not get us through this even if its a good basic guideline starting point good regionally engineered well considered plants that may or may not have regional precedent new or ancient and updated styles of plant nurturing and a lot of luck are going to be necessary I’m not arguing for decadence here I’m saying more radical moves than native may be necessary