The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city
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As a word of caution, however, fossil fuel emissions continue to rise, although it’s somewhat blunted lately. I think people should remember that we have to consider cumulative effects; of chopping down 40% of all the natural world for industrial agriculture, which not only releases all the carbon from destroyed greenery, but twice as much is released when you destroy the soil.
Herbicides, pesticides, fertilizer and soil compaction, as well as erosion from modern farming have obliterated 40% of the world’s carbon and hydrological capacity as well as it’s fertility.
Industrial Farms are a biological waste land of toxic chemicals, fossil fuel emissions, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.
All this to make corporations massively wealthier, while destroying the product, actual productive capacity of the land to sustain both the our climate and us
Would be a great start, the thing we need to remember is that up to 10 fossil fuel calories we used to bring a single food calorie to table. There is something very, very wrong about crops made from oil.
We could add on all the food ways that goes on in the 1300 miles at most food travels before reaching that final destination and what that means for recycling all the table scraps and all the other things that are the consequence of eating food.
If we could recycle all the organic stuff, they keep it separated from all the toxic produced with today’s economy, and have all of that go back into use for growing food we wouldn’t really need fertilizer
Animals and farms used to go together and chickens and ducks and geese and cows and pigs. All played their part in farms used to raise multiple things. The factory farms, all kinds both animal and vegetable really are more fossil fuel than they are the natural world.
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