[HN Gopher] Your Land, My Land (Offrange) - Lithium vs. Lettuce ...
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Your Land, My Land (Offrange) - Lithium vs. Lettuce in the Imperial
Valley, CA
Author : mfburnett
Score : 15 points
Date : 2025-11-15 12:31 UTC (1 days ago)
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| altairprime wrote:
| Lithium mining is somewhat less vulnerable to the groundwater
| table collapse; while _some_ water is still needed to maintain
| the miners, it's not agriculture-levels of it:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162654
| pixl97 wrote:
| >"You can't eat an iPhone," talking to me on his own.
|
| You can't eat money either, and yet with money you can buy all
| the food you want since someone somewhere will want to exchange
| the money for food.
|
| And as much as people complain about technology companies being
| spoiled, farmers as a whole generally have to be forced to not do
| things that are extremely dangerous to the environment. Pumping
| out all the water they have in an aquifer. Continually irrigating
| until their soil becomes salt. Spraying poisons on monocultures
| until everything around them looks the same and 3 horrific hard
| to kill insect types are left plaguing everything. Avoiding crop
| rotations and plowing early so all their soil blows/washes away.
| Growing crops that drink 100x the water of native plants, etc,
| etc, etc.
|
| Yes, we absolutely need food to survive. Does it have to be
| almonds and cows? Probably not. Don't let farmers as a whole act
| like they are some pro-ecological force here to save the world
| either, as everything to keep them from damaging the planet has
| been forced on them too.
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