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Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:45:38 -0400 from hubzilla

Russia and the Global Green Energy Crisis: Live With Michael Shellenberger

A live conversation with Reason's Nick Gillespie, Zach Weissmueller, and environmentalist and writer Michael Shellenberger about Europe's looming energy crisis.

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Sun, 09 Oct 2022 14:31:23 -0400 from libertious

I've read many EU farmers aren't going to harvest crops because they would have to charge like $10 a carrot to break even. (Not a real statistic, i just made it up, but along those lines and in that direction. One farmer stated his energy costs went from 100,000 to 1,000,000 in 12 months)

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Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:22:36 -0400 from hubzilla

I don't have info on the larger problem, but afaik that can only be true of large scale highly mechanised farms. I get all my veggies from a direct partnership with a family farm (CSA, in France we call it AMAP), we have just gone through renewing the partnership for another year and they didn't even raise the energy costs issue