I have a solution; learn to live inside the box. Then that box can go anywhere; inner cities, inhospitable land, desert islands, the Arctic, even space.
We can have growth without population explosion.
Ever hear of a word called balance?
Yes, which is why I said what I said. We can grow our economy and our prosperity without the need to grow our population.
Not just cut flower production, but tomato as well, it was the dutch who started growing tomato on vine pusing harvest all year long in greenhouses. Despite the small area (36sq miles of greenhouses) NL is the nr1 exporter of tomatoes in the world (some years it is mexico).
My dutch grandmother always use to tell that orange carrots were from the Netherlands (random) i also read in an article that purple carrots originated from the hindu kush region (go figure.
It's a well known story here because of the "orange" in our founding father's and fake-royal family's name. It's like breeding a stars-and-stripes carrot
The yellow is a mutated purple, from which the orange was developed. Nearly 200 years before F1 hybrids carrots became the standard in the 1950s. Hence the by nature gmo comment. It's mutagenesis, something nature does. something monsanto does too.Yes carotene (orange) carrots vs anthocyanin (purple) carrot. The fact cannabis afghanicas (includes kush) is often higher in anthocyanin too is not a coincidence.
Then you may like this one,
A cautionary tale, indeed. That story has serious implications for our industry.
I believe humans use genetic engineering, and nature uses mutations to create variety amongst a species hoping few will have acquired desired characteristics to thrive and reproduce while the other will die off .There are various types of mutations whether its chromosomal aberration, frame shift or another (can’t remember all, high school was a blur) it all comes down to the rearrangement of nucleotides/nitrogenous bases.
That sums it up nicely. Although it's can be indirect too, that is, through transgenesis genes from one species are introduced into another. I think that's the scary part for many, but it works because dna across all species is very similar. We're indirectly all mutants from the same ancestors.
If people implemented subsistence farming we would not have this problem to such an extent.
We can do without nuclear power just fine, and we really should. It's just too fucking dangerous. If a society as technologically advanced as Japan had a catastrophe, it can and will happen anywhere.
If you have space for a shipping container, we're currently perfecting the tech to do just that right here on this site.
Fukushima was a 40 year old power plant built in an active earthquake and tsunami zone, and it took the tsunami to actually do it in. These are both avoidable natural disasters, not to mention 40 years of technological and engineering progess to help with safety.
