Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest (apnews.com)
from Wilshire@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 14:28
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robocall@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 14:30 next collapse

Yay

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 14:45 next collapse

How does that affect domestic food production/supply?

bstix@feddit.dk on 18 Nov 15:07 next collapse

The current food production is approximately at 130% of the consumption, so Denmark will still have a net export.

Of course we also have imports, so the effect will be even smaller in that regard, but it’s nice to know that it’s fully covered in a worse case scenario.

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whithom@discuss.online on 18 Nov 16:35 next collapse

Digital food

bstix@feddit.dk on 18 Nov 16:40 next collapse

It’s farm products. I don’t think it’s any better or worse than American farms.

Most meals are cooked at home and people do expect fresh produce. The milk in stores was tapped the same morning, vegetables are crispy green and minced meat is red. A negative side is that we do have an incredible waste of food here, because people set high standards. Nobody buys anything on the “best before”-date.

I think the quality of food in USA is very dependent on location, distribution and preparation. Surely there is fresh food in US too, but it won’t be in the drive-thru.

BetaBlake@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 18:56 next collapse

Yeah unlike the American Cheese Whizz fields! /s

Assman@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 19:05 collapse

We used to watch the cheeto balls tumble across the plains in summer

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 19:22 collapse

America’s closest crop that it has 130% of in vast fields?

Bungalows.

America grows bungalows. And while the vast expanse of bungalow fields are expensive to raise and feed, those bungalows are valuable first-food to the fire-tornadoes and seasonal floods.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 19:53 next collapse

If you stop doing animal agriculture, food supplies go up about 90%

So this is a very easy problem to solve.

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Nov 15:38 collapse

no, they don’t.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 19 Nov 16:33 collapse

Of course they do

commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Nov 18:29 collapse

please prove your claim

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Nov 23:00 collapse

Negatively for sure, although if they choose the worst farmland it might be by a significantly less than 10%. People can decide if the tradeoff is worth it for themselves, I guess.

wolfpack86@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 00:36 collapse

They can paint on the old mink farms

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net on 18 Nov 15:13 next collapse

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I’m always leary of claims like this as often planting numbers overshadow future community composition.

13esq@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 15:46 collapse

As I understand it, they have to over plant as many of the trees won’t survive to maturity.

If they plant a billion and only a hundred million are still there in fifty years it’s still a big win for the environment.

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net on 19 Nov 16:00 collapse

Yes, this is part of it, too. Usually a safe bet is a 20% contingency for planting, but you need to watch your mortality rates, obviously, as big weather events can throw that all out the window.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 19:51 next collapse

Is this like colonialism? They dont even have that much land

pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 21:40 next collapse

That’s not how percentages work

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 19 Nov 03:15 collapse

I was to “1 billion trees”

bstix@feddit.dk on 19 Nov 11:22 collapse

The current forests in Denmark are 15% of the land and also about one billion trees in total. Adding another billion trees on 10% is probably possible.

barsoap@lemm.ee on 18 Nov 23:18 collapse

The kingdom is 2.210.403km^2^, it’s huge, 12th largest state in the world, larger than Saudi Arabia or Mexico. Most of it is Greenland though and it’s going to be difficult planting forests on glaciers so I think they mean metropolitan Denmark.

apocalypticat@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 20:16 collapse

Any Danes in this thread looking to marry? Asking for a friend that’s educated, housebroken, and loves nature and Danish metal.