Why doesn’t he visit the United States?

Yes, but mines ruin villages and their water supply; and if the villagers protest, then the company may kill them

I feel the need to clarify that these types of projects usually don’t bring “generational jobs and careers” but usually bring outside workforce who will leave when damage done.

I was just talking about an alternative to those farmers. The whole thread was about those farmers, not the vote. If they want to restore the damaged landscapes, they could leave that to us as well, because we could cover the damaged landscapes with humanure compost that will break down most toxins. (Kitchen scraps also go into humanure compost.)

Also, besides mulch and native plants, we could grow drought-tolerant crops instead of irrigating, and to the degree that we can make gardener communities, we can scale up our gardens to farms.

We could garden and farm by ourselves and the communities we can make, staying as close to nature as possible, without tilling, irrigating, or using chemicals, and by using mulch and some native plants instead.

Yeah, but from an anthropologist view, cities (and specialization) have basically been the downfall of our species. I don’t know; I guess bolo’bolo mentioned some city-like places supported by farms. (and Çatalhöyük)

Don’t do it. Quit fighting nature. Move inland. Quit living in cities! Okay, I know no one is going to do any of this.

Benjamin Franklin wanted everyone to be apprentices.

For biodiversity, for example, if the rate at which species disappear is less than 10 times the average extinction rate over the last 10 million years, that is deemed acceptable.

In reality, however, extinctions are occurring at least 100 times faster than this so-called background rate, and 10 times faster than the planetary boundary limit.

Will the miracle of life actually survive our self-induced extinction?

I would just do the cover crops along with some nitrogen fixers for several years.

PS – I would keep getting the lawn clippings and use them to mulch my plants.

With radical demands such as a 32-hour workweek

oh my gosh, go, go!

although the company has been successful, they haven’t paid the employees back for that.

This is why they deserve a raise and why we all deserve a raise. There’s no reason to keep all the wealth at the top, but of course, saying so is blasphemy in America.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/24/the-united-auto-workers-are-redefining-what-is-possible-for-us-labor/