>>11223981I think everyone here is aware that there are sustainable, environmentally friendly ways to produce food, but that isn't the issue.
The issue is that we are nearing critical mass in terms of overpopulation. The countries that have the most children are the ones that contribute the least to the advancement of civilization.
Industrial society coupled with the West's obsession with consumerist culture have set us on an irreversible course. Progressivism in the West forbids manufacturing to be executed domestically, for obvious reasons. So most of the shit that is harmful to the environment, and the shit where you can't justify paying decent wages to workers is done in places like China.
This has lead to a situation in which the demands of Western society are met through mass production of cheap materials in places like China, where there is no obligation or incentive to follow abstract parameters like EPA legislation. China and India are polluting the air and the oceans at a remarkable rate, because we are literally fucking paying them to do it.
Our problems are way more sophisticated than "Nah but hey look at this giant, underutilized field! Think of all the corn we can grow or houses we can build here!" That will just further our issues.
