Please don't pretend we can all grow enough of our own food to survive. Urban subsistence farming is not a viable plan.
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I did mean to say if US urban centers don't get more serious about growing more food locally, there will be even more suffering and death than I currently fear. Which is a lot.
sep 2, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
I did not say that at all. Currently I can grow exactly ZERO food. If it weren't for the local food bank I don't know how I would have eaten for the last year and a half as the deep blue state of New York used bureaucratic bullshit to deny me SNAP I said is food is going to be a problem. Grow some
sep 2, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Fair. I just worry about the people who do expect individuals can counter this nightmare by living on what they can grow, because like yourself, many people can grow exactly zero food.
sep 2, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
I definitely do not think that. We absolutely will NOT get through this period on rugged hyperindividualism. That's what got us into this mess to begin with. However, if we act collectively and emphasize food production in urban settings more of us will survive than otherwise would.
sep 2, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view