• doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Is almost like concentrating so much of our population and our agriculture in the desert is a bad idea. Yeah the weather sucks in my part of the country and the only thing that grows here is corn and soybeans but we have an excess of water.

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      10 months ago

      Other things grow, but corn and soybeans are heavily subsidised (not to mention genetically modified).

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        9 months ago

        As someone who has gardened in the western US and gardened in the east, there is a difference between growing and growing well. Lots of things around here are grown in greenhouses to help mitigate environmental challenges.