Colony Collapse = California's Fault

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
been fkn asking it for years, where the fk do you milk an almond from? it's the devil, man.

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Reli

Well-known member
I drank some almond milk recently, it wasn't half bad. And despite the huge water use needed to grow almonds, I bet it's less than what's used for cattle operations.
 

planegray

Redwood Original
Staff member
Jeez... enough with splitting hairs over how much almonds are worth. :facepalm

Can we just get back to crucifying the "evil California growers" ?!? You know, for clutchslips sake ?



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littlebeast

get it while it's easy
reminds me in an odd way of a vacation my SO and i took a couple of years ago. we rented a small stone house in the remote tuscan hills. it was a beautiful little house in a beautiful area - but one of things that struck us the most, and we both noticed and remarked on it, was the number of bugs. it seemed like there were millions of them. all manner. we talked at that time about the fact it had been a long time since we had seen that many. it didn’t feel good to either of us that we hadn’t. it made something feel very absent and wrong about home.

in that same vein, my SO recently sent me the article linked below, and it struck a chord with me. he’s very keen on harbingers. always looking for the canary in a coal mine. he also has a very dystopian bent to his personality, so he kinda gravitates that way.

it’s a very long read, but if you are like minded, you may be interested.

The Insect Apocalypse is Here (and it doesn’t bode well for us)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html
 
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littlebeast

get it while it's easy
Were prolly gonna need all the help we can get so, yeah give it a shot!

super depressing. relying on technology to take over because we’ve fucked the natural world to the point it can no longer function effectively. we are devolving into ruins. a bleak, empty and colorless future. i don’t want to see it. fucking shoot me now. :(
 

cfives

Well-known member
... we are devolving into ruins. a bleak, empty and colorless future. ... :(

I see it more as we are evolving into increasingly destructive forms. Technological advances to keep us alive, before spreading to other planets, is much more evolution than devolution in my mind.
 

littlebeast

get it while it's easy
I see it more as we are evolving into increasingly destructive forms. Technological advances to keep us alive, before spreading to other planets, is much more evolution than devolution in my mind.

irrespective of the impact of the loss of biodiversity, i guess the part that resonates with me is - without so many of its elemental aspects, ‘how much of life is worth living’. sterility has no appeal to me. i thrive on the unusual and unexpected. i love butterflies and ladybugs, but i also love spiders crawling down my wall. and my absolute favorites are water beetles and lightening bugs. and of course the bees in the lavender.

i can’t imagine enjoying life without those tiny creatures.
 
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oobus

Dirt Monger
Aren't almonds one of the worst water-wasting crops? If so, they shouldn't even be allowed in CA.

Alfalfa uses the most water. And, if you think about it, almonds get harvested way before olives, pistachio's, pecan's and walnuts: last to harvest - longer growing season - more irrigation needed.

Almonds got a bad rap because there are so many acres of them in California: we grow 80% of the World Supply.
 
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