>“You can’t eat an iPhone,” talking to me on his own.
You can't eat money either, and yet with money you can buy all the food you want since someone somewhere will want to exchange the money for food.
And as much as people complain about technology companies being spoiled, farmers as a whole generally have to be forced to not do things that are extremely dangerous to the environment. Pumping out all the water they have in an aquifer. Continually irrigating until their soil becomes salt. Spraying poisons on monocultures until everything around them looks the same and 3 horrific hard to kill insect types are left plaguing everything. Avoiding crop rotations and plowing early so all their soil blows/washes away. Growing crops that drink 100x the water of native plants, etc, etc, etc.
Yes, we absolutely need food to survive. Does it have to be almonds and cows? Probably not. Don't let farmers as a whole act like they are some pro-ecological force here to save the world either, as everything to keep them from damaging the planet has been forced on them too.
> And as much as people complain about technology companies being spoiled, farmers as a whole generally have to be forced to not do things that are extremely dangerous to the environment.
"Farmers" is doing some work here. You mean corporations.
I gather that several southern american nations have some serious issues with Lithium mines nicking water. Search: "lithium mines water southern america"
... and read the Conclusion, and note that the study was not too fussed about delivering bad news. That Conclusion is a masterclass in hiding stuff. You will actually have to read the entire paper and its all a load of fluff. Shame really.
They’ve been saying this for years. Every few months you’ll see an article about IV having the biggest store of lithium in the US, but nothing ever comes of it.
Lithium mining is somewhat less vulnerable to the groundwater table collapse; while some water is still needed to maintain the miners, it’s not agriculture-levels of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162654
>“You can’t eat an iPhone,” talking to me on his own.
You can't eat money either, and yet with money you can buy all the food you want since someone somewhere will want to exchange the money for food.
And as much as people complain about technology companies being spoiled, farmers as a whole generally have to be forced to not do things that are extremely dangerous to the environment. Pumping out all the water they have in an aquifer. Continually irrigating until their soil becomes salt. Spraying poisons on monocultures until everything around them looks the same and 3 horrific hard to kill insect types are left plaguing everything. Avoiding crop rotations and plowing early so all their soil blows/washes away. Growing crops that drink 100x the water of native plants, etc, etc, etc.
Yes, we absolutely need food to survive. Does it have to be almonds and cows? Probably not. Don't let farmers as a whole act like they are some pro-ecological force here to save the world either, as everything to keep them from damaging the planet has been forced on them too.
> And as much as people complain about technology companies being spoiled, farmers as a whole generally have to be forced to not do things that are extremely dangerous to the environment.
"Farmers" is doing some work here. You mean corporations.
I gather that several southern american nations have some serious issues with Lithium mines nicking water. Search: "lithium mines water southern america"
You could look at this: ...
https://www.bmwgroup.com/content/dam/grpw/websites/bmwgroup_...
... and read the Conclusion, and note that the study was not too fussed about delivering bad news. That Conclusion is a masterclass in hiding stuff. You will actually have to read the entire paper and its all a load of fluff. Shame really.
They’ve been saying this for years. Every few months you’ll see an article about IV having the biggest store of lithium in the US, but nothing ever comes of it.
Lithium mining is somewhat less vulnerable to the groundwater table collapse; while some water is still needed to maintain the miners, it’s not agriculture-levels of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162654