• Etterra@discuss.online
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    3 months ago

    I totally agree and I’ve been saying this for a little while. But get this, since there are plenty of unused grassy properties out there in America, there’s somewhere they’re making deals with sheep heard owners where the sheep are regularly brought over to the property to eat grass around and under the solar panels. Apparently trying to keep the grass cleaned up and not overgrowing the panels is a problem because of all the little nooks and crannies, getting mowing done under and around them as a pain in the ass. But the sheep can just come in there get a free meal and do the job perfectly well. It’s win-win.

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      3 months ago

      the sheep, we envision when someone says sheep, wouldnt exist without humanity. its also -like all other bred animal breeds with similar situations- serious damage for their bones to carry 10kg’s of extra fur(bred to be wooly).

      So no, this is not a win-win

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          3 months ago

          “No profit, not work-ey” - unless we change the system to make accumulation impossible of course

          anything else would be ignorant to compare to the commonness of parking lots - as in not worth to compare to begin with, like the handful of animal sanctuaries or whatever u’d think of here

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            3 months ago

            Maybe we live in a society that just has more goats, and goats are a bigger part of everyones lives.

            Id rather not have any parking lots if it were entirely my choice.

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              3 months ago

              look, im car free by choice - couldve owned a newer A4 avant. So we agree on the parking lots in its prevalance are too much.

              This doesnt change the fact that the whole sheep input is still absurd - no matter how romanticized the cartoony picture looks like… the realist view on your idealist idea could be “agrar solar” -> here an example picture

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                3 months ago

                There is a big ass vehicle turning the soil in that pic. I dont think thats a phase of modern agriculture typically presented in the pr photos, and its not pretty even when you do it by hand.

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                  3 months ago

                  i dont follow, maybe its because im not native english/american? id be happy if you could make the point clearer for me here…cause currently youre discribing the thing but there seems to be no full argument without further context?

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    3 months ago

    No, parking lots need to be developed. We can’t have functional cities when every other plot of land is dedicated to park cars.