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Most people don’t have very much of a yard, and even a relatively large garden, say a fifth of an acre is not going to replace much industrial farming. I’m not saying it’s valueless (I think many home grown veggies are more delicious than anything available at a store. tomatoes of course, but also consider celery, so strong in flavor from the home garden) but I think it’s a relatively small part of the climate change equation.

As a side note, contractors for my neighbor just dumped a shitload of old asphalt and cement shingles on my 80 sqft garden, thick black dust over every plant. So idk, I’m just talking from the sidelines here, fucking demoralized.

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>Most people don’t have very much of a yard, and even a relatively large garden, say a fifth of an acre is not going to replace much industrial farming.

Even 1/5 of an acre or less will yield more produce than your family and several neighbors families can eat.

I speak from experience. Till composted steer manure into the soil. Lots and lots. Every year.

> contractors for my neighbor just dumped a shitload of old asphalt and cement shingles on my 80 sqft garden

You should go talk to the contractor. He needs to clean that up.

>but I think it’s a relatively small part of the climate change equation.

No one wants to discuss Chinese and Indian emissions. Instead we are resigned to demonizing cow farts.

Per capita emmisions from India is 10x lower than Usa

The earth does not concern itself with per capita.

I’ve talked to plenty of people, they did actually clean up the pieces mostly (after a different neighbor called the state) but the heavy asphalt dust is just oh well, too bad, deal with it. That we are not aware of an effective method of removing the material, and I should get a soil test. I think probably removing the top 3 inches of soil and trashing all the plants would be pretty effective, but who knows.

I should have taken action faster, but was busy. My buddy’s perspective (who is also a contractor) was I should have called the cops immediately, told them to get the fuck off my property, and caused a huge scene, so that once it was all sorted out and they were back on my property, as they are allowed to be since the neighbors garage is directly on the property line, they would have tread carefully. Only way to get some guys to respect your stuff is to cause trouble, he says anyway.

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