This dude spent a year growing his own crop and foraging other foods... (environment, compare)

[Chicano3000X]

https://youtu.be/JUR7_EmUy1k

He went full “Martian” with his toilet lol.

[theatergypsy]

I watched his youtube video. He's quite engaging and interesting. He isn't preaching but sharing his belief that we can all manage to eat safely and safer by knowing what it is we're eating. He seems genuinely enthusiastic about that tomato! TFS Chicano

[ABQConvict]

I watched a couple of short videos by Rob Greenfield and he seemed to be an extremist, but upon having watched much more, I really appreciate the fact that he wants to instill that his actions suit his own philosophy, and are not necessarily meant to be a model for emulation.

More like he is conducting and sharing experiments as proof of concept rather than saying "Growing and foraging 100% of your food is the one ethical existence!"

[guidoLaMoto]

I didn't watch the video. I march to the beat of my own drum-- Which reminds me, Henry David Thoreau famously lived a solitary existence -- but only for two yrs.


Everybody was self-reliant until the Industrial Revolution allowed the growing masses to abandon growing their own and still survive....In terms of hunting/gathering, it's said that each individual needs to 2- 10 sq MILES of habitat to exploit in order to stay alive. That worked fine until human population growth spoiled the arithmetic...


Indigenous tribes were said to be "living in harmony with Nature." That may be true, but it's not because they wanted to. It's because they had no other choice...They wished they could just wake up in the AM, pop an Eggo in the toaster and go sit at a desk all day.


While philosophically it may be nice to day dream about living "sustainable lives," in reality, we have grown in population to the point where the only sustainable life style now is to keep using our technology...and that technology depends on reliable, cheap and easily available power production...To limit that resource represents a negative change in the carrying capacity of the environment...Allowing that to happen would cause an increase in the death rate compared to the birth rate, ie- a Die Off until a new equilibrium is reached.


That equilibrium point is down around 2.5 billion people-- ie- a more or less rapid loss of 5 billion....and we're in a panic lately about the 800 who've died of Coronavirus???? OK, Dreamers. Coffee break's over. Back to Reality.