I am certainly not wealthy, which requires me to reconsider every purchase I make. I keep my phone for years, buy from the Habitat for Humanity Store, use what I have to make reusable face masks, buy "gently used" items, clothes, etc. I need to eat, that's a necessity. So I don't buy chemicals. That meant learning to grow food in containers, healthy food, which required learning about permaculture, worm composting indoors. (It does not smell). I use transit or my feet to travel. All of these changes are important to reduced kitchen scraps (worm compost), improve food using compost for good soil biology.

I live in Surrey, the Agricultural Land Management is not managing the lands for food production, which was apparently the reason for them being reserved. Huge homes surrounded by a crop of nothing more than weeds is not agriculture. Surrey has been busy building solar ovens using condos all in a very tight area, which adds huge expenses to any buildings in the foreseeable future, air conditioning, poor air quality, noise pollution, and no public green spaces. City planning is apparently driven by land developers.