Tacos for the climate

No one in Sweden has probably been able to evade the slightly annoying commercials promoting “tacos for the climate”. In reality, the company behind those tacos, Frankful, is just another mainstream business that has bought into the idea that humans should live in “harmony” with nature, which apparently means sprawling renewable energy and extensive agriculture.

In my fantasy world, I dream of a company that would be brave enough to use 100% nuclear energy and produce food in vertical farms (while we wait for those molecular assemblers to arrive), leaving room for rewilding and a gradual restoration of the planet that we have ravaged. Yesterday, The Guardian reported on the rapid degradation of global soils. According to a new FAO report, 135 billion tons of soil have been lost since the Industrial Revolution, projecting that the world’s topsoil will be gone within 60 years if current trends continue.

After running 10 km in absolutely awful conditions, I ended up making, ehh, halloumi tacos for lunch...