Comment on A decline in arable land
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yet here in Canada, we pave over our farmland to build McMansions and strip malls. Sure we can feed our own country and then some still, but is this really the best use of such high quality arable land?
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s always been the way of it. Cities start where people settle, and people settle on the best land they can find. Then the city expands into the farmland surrounding it. This happened in Europe, and then NA. This isn’t a Canada Bad thing.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can you really call a sea of single family homes and overgrown backyards a city? I get that cities get bigger, but if we are going to pave over farmland lets fit more than 5-10 people per acre.