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		pfdietz on Sept 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emi... That's a distinction that makes no difference. Agriculture uses only about 1% of our energy, so if we can move industrial society off fossil fuels, we can easily move farming off fossil fuels. Alluding to the specter of famine is just scaremongering.

headmelted on Sept 24, 2020 [–]

And even at that, moving everything that is not agriculture off of fossil fuels still means a 99% reduction in fossil fuel use.

Then 100% when the solutions devised to get rid of the other 99% of use are adapted to agriculture and make the use there obsolete too.

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