I envision a future where the agriculture industry works hand in hand with both sustainable and ethical practices. I believe that farming should be viewed as a long-term threat to the environment and treated with caution. We need food to survive but we also need a healthy earth to live on. The agriculture industry has grown significantly over the past few decades. This high demand has arisen new problems like soil degregation as companies do not priotitize sustainble but only cost-efficent quantity. As an intervention, government should implement susidies to promote sustainble practices and highlight them with a special label so consumers can have the power to chose to support.
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Hi Michelle, I agree, maintain soil health and biodiversity are crucial in order to limit CO2 emissions and help reduce the impacts of climate change. However, I disagree that farming should be viewed as a long-term threat to the environnment. Rather, farming practices that have negative long-term impacts on the environment should be removed and replaced with more sustainable ones.
Hi Michelle, government intervention through subsidies that promote and incentivize sustainable agricultural methods is a crucial step, great point!! These subsidies have the potential to encourage farmers to adopt eco-friendly practices, prioritize soil health, and embrace a long-term, holistic approach.
Hi Michelle, I enjoyed reading your post and seeing your concerns about the agriculture industry. I suggest that you look into hydroponic systems, they are a very cool way to produce food with minimal environmental harm.
Hi Michelle, I agree that it is important that governments implement subsidies to encourage sustainable agricultural practices. As well, I don't believe that cost-efficiency is mutually exclusive with sustainability. We're just made to think that intensive farming is more efficient given its extremely high yield, but the reality is that a significant portion of that food is discarded as surplus and thus becomes another costly sustability issue. Once we can get sustainable agriculture to be more widespread, it could also likely become comparatively affordable.
Hello Michelle, I agree with your intervention because most of the time consumers don't really have a choice or right to contribute regarding sustainable practices. Therefore, policymakers and governance parties should be held accountable for their approaches.