Grow your own fruit and veg – and destroy the planet. Allotment produce, much prized by proud food-growing citizens the world over, has six times the ‘carbon’ footprint of conventional agriculture, according to a recent paper published by Nature. “Steps must be taken to ensure that urban agriculture supports, and does not undermine, urban decarbonisation efforts,” demand the authors.
What have these people
been smoking? Surely not some of the puff circulating at the recent
Psychedelic Climate Week in New York. Highlights included a discussion
on funding ketamine-assisted therapy and a panel on ‘Balancing Investing
and Impact with Climate and Psychedelic Capital’.
The lead
authors of the Nature paper are academics working out of the School for
Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. They
suggest using urban farms as sites for “education, leisure and community
building”. Perhaps the locals could sit cross-legged and listen to
early Pink Floyd music. Maybe clap the setting sun to some Atom Heart
Mother.
Excuse your correspondent if he cannot take this paper
seriously. It is a classic example of greens picking on a human activity
– almost any will do – and complaining that it causes the devil-gas
carbon dioxide to be released. At the recent New York climate happening,
according to the Guardian, revellers were told that using hallucinogens
can spark “consciousness shifts” to inspire climate-friendly behaviour.
What climate friendly behaviour, one might ask, given that almost
anything humans do to improve their lot of Earth is demonised by an
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