Industrial agriculture includes many elements few fully understand. The shipping of fruit thousands of miles via air freight is a function of 1) absurdly cheap jet fuel and 2) global tourism, which fills airliners with passengers who subsidize the air cargo stored beneath their feet.
When global tourism dried up in the Covid lockdown, so did air cargo capacity.
There are many misunderstandings about industrial agriculture and the reliance on cheap hydrocarbons. Many pin their hopes on organic vegetables without realizing every organic tomato is still 5 teaspoons of diesel and 5 teaspoons of jet fuel if it's grown on an industrial scale and shipped thousands of miles via air.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
That's multiple order thinking.
"What happens then? What happens then? What happens then?" Usually by 3-4 times out you start to see the things that counter the narrative presented by political salesmen.
admin@exploding-heads.com 2 years ago
It sort of motivated me to think about planting a few fruit trees in the yard, plant a herb box, etc.
Every little bit helps