On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 9:32:23 AM Fred Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> For an example of what John is talking about, see > http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/japanese-agricultural-heritage-systems-recognized. > Japanese traditional agricultural practices are based on maintaining > coherent local biomes as opposed to razing them and creating monocultures. > How many calories/acre does this produce, compared to modern industrial agriculture? I'm skeptical that this is more efficient/effective than making high-output use of the farms and fields we have, while preserving remaining land in a natural state. Especially since we've already got a lot of land that is either in industrial agriculture now, or in non-intensive agriculture that has still eliminated essentially all of the native species. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
