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hermannj314 | on: #40265456
Not serving water in restaurants fixed the water crisis and letting insects eat my roses will fix the bug crisis.

As long as the farmers receiving billions of dollars a year in holdover depression-era welfare programs don't have do anything to combat the problem, we should be fine.

FartyMcFarter | parent | next
I find this kind of comment neither particularly amusing nor informative. Can you elaborate on those kinds of programs and their problems instead?
antisthenes | root | parent | next
I find this tongue-in-cheek commentary very amusing, especially considering the article is a perfect example of describing feel-good bikeshedding, rather than addressing actual issues that were called out (e.g. large scale farming and loss of habitat due to human development)

If you want to read more, you can start at a very high level by Googling habitat loss and industrial agriculture, I guess?

nemo44x | root | parent
Instead of “habitat loss” I prefer to call it “starvation prevention”.
elmomle | root | parent | next
I think "starvation deferment" is a more accurate phrase. To prevent starvation we need to address the tendency of humanity to reproduce, and to consume resources, past the limits of what we can safely and reliably sustain. Taking more and more land, and increasingly suppressing nature, to create more food on a finite Earth simply kicks the problem down the road.
plasmasheep | root | parent | next
Good news, the share of the world's land used for agriculture has been declining for 24 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-f...

Now that your objection (increased land use) has been disproven, I am sure you will come to change your outmoded, even Ehrlichian, views on human population size.

jogjayr | root | parent
I don't know how to reconcile that with this other chart which shows agricultural land went from 4.81 billion ha in 2000 to 4.83 billion ha in 2023.

Per capita it's still a decline. Personally I would attribute it to increasing yields in the developing world which are due to modern practices, pesticides, and fertilizers. But it doesn't show a decline like in the chart you posted.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-agricultural-area-o...

DontchaKnowit | root | parent | next
eye roll when are we gonna get over this Malthusian doomsaying.

Population is not the issue. Stewardship is the issue.

nemo44x | root | parent
The fact we’ve basically eliminated fatality rates to kids under 5 is the the actual thing they’re trying to say. That kids survive at a rate in many places globally that is not sustainable to those places. Meanwhile we are told that we should limit how many kids, if any, we should have.
BobaFloutist | root | parent
The good news is that childbirth rates are plummeting in the majority of the world, despite desperate efforts to encourage them upwards.

It turns out that, given education, opportunity, and choice, women want an average of far under 2 children.

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Am4TIfIsER0ppos | root | parent
When are you going to do your part and stop eating?
hollerith | root | parent
Another way he could do his part is to kill someone in a judicially-approved way, such as during a war.
wizardforhire | root | parent
Might as well go all the way and call it a “green initiative”
whythre | root | parent | next
The above post isn’t about specific details, it’s about the idea of individuals being scolded into trying useless ‘solutions’ to problems caused by the mismanagement of entire industries. Industrialized farming involves a lot of pesticides. Acting as if the problem will get better if people just let pests eat their small garden plots is dumb.
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