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Plant-based diets would cut humanity’s land use by 73%: An overlooked answer to the climate crisis
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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 that let's you stop thinking without encountering or fully articulation the problem
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.