I like your thinking. As I understand, about 80% of a manufactured product's lifetime energy use is consumed before its end-user turns it on for the first time. I'm not sure how these questions apply to potatoes or other food. I started listing questions: Were the potatoes from a monocropped farm? Were herbicides, pesticides, fungicides involved? How far were they grown from your home? How were they transported to your home? Were farmers paid a living wage? Were GMOs involved? Was A.I. involved in these potatoes production? Yeesh. You've helped me realize that our food, too, has become part of the global super-factory. (I have a crop of potatoes in my garden that volunteers to produce every year. I just water and harvest the crop. This is different from commercial production.) Please check out my list of substances involved in manufacturing ONE smartphone: https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/enlightenment
--while one car can now have 100 computers. Thanks for writing.
I enjoyed reading 21 questions…. I couldn’t help but think we could substitute solar panels for anything from a potato to the house we live in to the car we drive. Each is farmed , mined ,grown from the land , think 2x4 lumber. We passed the 8,000,000,000 people on the planet about a year ago. We use a lot of resources.
Thanks for writing. How do we deal with the loss of due diligence and democratic, informed decision-making? As new tech thrives, we absolutely need places wherein questions and discussions are welcome, and liability-carrying experts evaluate tech from cradle to grave. What can we do to secure such stuff????
Thanks for writing! Here are a few other relevant pieces:
Fire hazards at the battery storage system coming near you
https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/bess-fire-hazards
Discovering Power’s Traps: a primer for electricity users
https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/electricity-primer
Call me a NIMBY
https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/nimby
Thoroughly enjoyed this deep dive, sharing your sources gratefully to raise awareness among friends.
I like your thinking. As I understand, about 80% of a manufactured product's lifetime energy use is consumed before its end-user turns it on for the first time. I'm not sure how these questions apply to potatoes or other food. I started listing questions: Were the potatoes from a monocropped farm? Were herbicides, pesticides, fungicides involved? How far were they grown from your home? How were they transported to your home? Were farmers paid a living wage? Were GMOs involved? Was A.I. involved in these potatoes production? Yeesh. You've helped me realize that our food, too, has become part of the global super-factory. (I have a crop of potatoes in my garden that volunteers to produce every year. I just water and harvest the crop. This is different from commercial production.) Please check out my list of substances involved in manufacturing ONE smartphone: https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/enlightenment
--while one car can now have 100 computers. Thanks for writing.
I enjoyed reading 21 questions…. I couldn’t help but think we could substitute solar panels for anything from a potato to the house we live in to the car we drive. Each is farmed , mined ,grown from the land , think 2x4 lumber. We passed the 8,000,000,000 people on the planet about a year ago. We use a lot of resources.
Thanks for writing. How do we deal with the loss of due diligence and democratic, informed decision-making? As new tech thrives, we absolutely need places wherein questions and discussions are welcome, and liability-carrying experts evaluate tech from cradle to grave. What can we do to secure such stuff????