'They just need land': young farmers struggle to find affordable acreage

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2. Agriculture is the second most environmentally destructive things humans do...

... second only to extracting and burning fossil fuels.

We really ought to minimize agriculture whenever possible, and not encourage "rural lifestyles" which have the double environmental slam of farming and commuting longer distances for shopping and/or work.

In other words, we shouldn't romanticize farming. It's already a horror show with things like industrial scale meat, dairy, and egg production, or worse, "biofuel production."

It's quite possible to be a farmer in an urban environment. In a better world urban land use policies would accommodate this kind of farming.

We need to turn our cities into attractive affordable places where car ownership is unnecessary and people can be farmers or gardeners as they are so inclined.