Business As Usual
Caption:
spoiler
A “hypocrisy” type meme with two images:
Top: photo of a military squad, all geared up, standing ready next to an armored vehicle. Caption: “Germany against scientists sitting in protest for climate”
Bottom: photo of a bunch of military personnel playing while wearing clown makeup. Caption: “Germany against farmers wanting to lynch government members because diesel subsidy needs to be cut”
the right side of this bar chart: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01605-8#Fig3
Yeah it states all of them needs farmers that care for them. And if farmers dont want to do it anymore all of it goes to 0 because there is no food.
Do you not understand basic economics?
Food is pretty much a non elastic commodity. People must have it to live, so the demand is quite fixed regardless of price.
So as soon as the food production drops low enough that prices rise so high that it is profitable on its own, people will be farming again.
Right now we keep local farming artificially afloat through subsidies for strategic reasons. This is necessary because food from elsewhere would be cheaper to import than to produce it here, and the subsidies allow local produce to compete with those cheap prices.
That being said, I am definitely not in favor of importing low quality industrial trash from the other side of the globe either; local farming is better for the environment and provides higher quality product.
We just need to find a better way than throwing money at already well off farmers just so they pretty please keep doing their job.
Nope, what you’ll get is more import, and strategic dependency on food producing countries.
Yea I mentioned that, no? We keep local farmers going not because it’s the cheapest thing to do but so we have an independent means of producing food, otherwise we would be dependent on imports and also suffer the resulting geopolitical power loss.
Exactly.
Plant farmers are part of the solutions for sure, but there are going to be a lot of changes.