Agreed. Anything that is not legitimate needs to be ruthlessly eliminated.
Eg. recycling programs that don't really recycle; 'organic' food imported from Asia; Electric cars in areas where electricity is generated from coal; etc. etc.
Things that look good on the surface but really accomplish nothing.
Nitrogen fertilizer is an oil product - I didn’t know Denmark stopped using it. If you want those kinds of changes, be prepared for the sacrifices that come with them - it won’t be just farmers making sacrifices.
The bottom line is living with less - which most of us suck at - badly. eg. Manitoba has more passenger vehicles than licensed drivers. We’re having fewer children but building larger houses.
I don’t see any will to do the kind of work that would be required if farming were done with fewer hydrocarbons. Ask any vegetable or fruit grower who does their physical work. Teach children how to pull weeds, butcher chickens and gather potatoes - no one can be exempt from this kind of work.
Recycling. The current solution is to ship it all to China, who turn it into products that keep our dollar stores full.
It could be both or neither, certainly not either or. Believe it or not, the issue is on the unions’ and governments’ radar and is currently under review.
The original question is: does it exist?
Answer: yes
Who is going to step up and make the sacrifices? Hydrocarbons enable the lifestyle we currently take for granted. The agriculture industries are huge carbon users, through fuels, fertilizers and chemicals. If changes are made in the energy sector, food prices have no where to go but up.
Meanwhile, I guess we can sit in our affluent surroundings, write articles and create memes.
There are more males on the admin side - in spite of teaching being a profession that is 80% female - they get paid more. I explained this several weeks ago.
I went with Mikawos - he started for the Bombers when they used a 3 man front most of the time. A nose tackle won't compile too many stats in that scheme.
In order to be 100% convinced about that, you would need to know whether there are female applicants for those jobs. In the fields I was referring to, there are.
That fact, is about as obscure as the fact that there is already enough food to feed the entire global population. The problem is not a lack of food or agricultural land, the problem is distribution.