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osma, 10 months ago to solar

No need to clear new land for solar power. Panels can coexist with agriculture, and even help it since many crops thrive in partial shade and/or benefit from water retention under the panels.

“Maize is grown by about 50% of farmers in Tanzania. Maize is also a sun loving plant. So the fact that we had an 11% yield increase in maize [under solar panel arrays] is a phenomenal result,” he said.

#solar #renewables #agriculture https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

bsmall2, 1 year ago to random

> In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm.. The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller... finite natural resources could not support ever-increasing consumption, and warned of likely ecological overshoot and societal collapse.. by the middle of the twenty-first century.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/club-of-rome-report-sustainable-wellbeing-five-shifts-by-jayati-ghosh-2022-07
#JayatiGosh on #LimitsOfGrowth and #Earth4All, sounds like #NaomiKlein 2014 and #Castoriadis 1981