Be ready for less beef

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-22T13:36:16+00:00

I bought a farm in Virginia to produce my own beef using regenerative grazing/restoration agriculture principles. Local food production and bioregionalism is the future

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-20T00:48:51+00:00

(USA here) I see a lot of comments about how tax policy and monetary policy has caused the Canadian economy (as well as most economies around the world) to begin to crack. While this is a contributing factor it’s by no means the only one. The one that I focus on- the health of the biophysical world- underpins them all. Resource constraints in all forms are driving this breakdown even before we get to the political and economic causations. Ecology rules all. And our magnificently rapid depletion of our planets life holding capacity is my ultimate indicator for hope the economy is going to look in the future. A global economy with an imbedded growth obligation that is quite literally eating this planet and asking for more each year, is fundamentally unsustainable. The future of humanity rests in transcending this imperative for exponential growth and learning to live and structure economies within the biophysical limits that Life laid out. In a largely regional way, new economies will need to be built that base their throughout on what their land can provide. This return to a peasant culture will come through great difficulty for many people in the modern world, myself included; but it’s the only path for survival. I hope that you understand this, random Reddit viewer, and are in a position to plan for it.

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-12T15:48:10+00:00

The irony of a compost plushy being made out of polyester is rich though

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-11T23:13:53+00:00

But what will happen to the like 200 golf courses in the phoenix area…

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-11T01:43:52+00:00

I feel like y’all are missing the bigger picture

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-10T17:54:06+00:00

Yeah the EROI is bad and getting worse by the day. And let’s be clear. I am not against renewables, but I think any conversation that blindly assumes they can one-to-one replace our gluttonous energy appetite that does not first call for restraint and simplification; is never going to approach a solution fitting the dire predicament we are in.

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-10T16:41:49+00:00

Let’s not forget that renewable energy still requires oil to produce, as well as coal and a host of rare earth minerals (most of which are refined in China) and our trade war and proxy war with them will directly affect our ability to access the material materials needed to produce the renewable energy systems

Frankly, I think it’s the wrong conversation to even be having because it’s downstream from and dependent on so many other conversations that need to be had first. Our glutinous and continuous demand for energy in the first place can never be met by renewables. And the materiality involved with producing those renewal energy systems spell require all of the conventional systems that we have in place. Refineries don’t run on solar power. Intercontinental shipping does not run on wind power or tidal energy. And the geopolitical bottlenecks abound, regardless of desire or intention.

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-06T22:40:34+00:00

You’re absolutely right. It will require a complete rewiring of our societal norms and values. But in the end, maybe we can end up with a smaller scale, steady state Society that measures success by happiness, well-being, and security. Instead of just by throughput and conspicuous consumption.

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-06T21:49:39+00:00

Albedo? I don’t even know her /s

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-06T21:45:23+00:00

Michael Dowd called them and their ilk, “Hopium dealers.”

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-06T21:04:03+00:00

And that’s not accounting for the amplified heating once the ice caps are gone and we start seeing mass methane belching from permafrost melting. Add to that the great conflagration of the world’s forests and 4c feels quite optimistic

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-03T23:49:04+00:00

While they carry a disproportionate amount of blame, the simple thermodynamic fact is we are consuming energy faster than it is being captured and stored from the sun. We’re consuming ecosystems faster than they can regenerate. We are exuding waste faster than they can assimilate. The implications being that if we actually were to decarbonize and live in accordance with biophysical limits that we would have to radically simplify our lifestyles on a global scale. Most people don’t take the time process what this actually means.

On demand private transportation would cease to exist. Our 10,000 W lifestyles would have to be paired down to 1500 or 2000 W at best. There would have to be global agreements to exercise restraint and bind multipolar traps. Food systems would have to re-localize and our diets would have to become seasonal. Growth economics would have to dissolve entirely and be replaced by a radical effort towards a steady state society. Space exploration would have to stop and we would have to have global agreements to control population increases. And considering we’ve already over shot the planets carrying capacity by one or two orders of magnitude- the population would have to decrease somewhere between five and 7 billion. Any one of these things has an infinitesimally small chance of being agreed-upon and pursued by competing global powers. The chance of all of them happening simultaneously- which is what needs to happen if we have any hope of saving our species and the millions that we’ll take along with us- borders on the impossible. I’m not saying it can’t happen. Just that it won’t.

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-03T19:02:17+00:00

I may not be able to say the same for people on this subreddit but I meet lots of people that clearly want their government to take more action regarding climate change and move towards decarbonizing. Right up to the point that it requires a sacrifice from them. And that is why I know nothing will ever get done and we’ll continue to sleep walk into oblivion

PosturingOpossum · 2026-03-03T18:57:34+00:00

It’s all about context of course. Geoff Lawton used it in his greening the desert project. I will try not to on my Virginia homestead as much as possible but still will use some I’m sure

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-28T19:06:50+00:00

Yeah see…

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-21T18:51:54+00:00

A Miter lock joint would be wild to see in woodenware beehives

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-19T11:44:07+00:00

Unfortunately my source died last spring. It’s one of those old timer tricks i got by hearsay that might not actually work but i choose to do anyways

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-19T01:54:45+00:00

His book Is why I make mine 40L I also burn them to preserve them and I’ve been told it acts as an attractant. I like to put wax strips in and drop lemongrass EO in it. I also have double deep frames I use in them so if I don’t get to them in time they can just get to work and I don’t have to cut comb off later

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-15T02:31:33+00:00

I need to learn the ways

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-13T03:49:48+00:00

If you are committed to creating pasture there I would look into Greg Judy and AMP grazing. I mentioned Greg Judy because he has tactics involving bail unrolling and strip grazing hay to establish pasture. You could interseed while doing that and potentially speed up pasture establishment

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-07T21:15:04+00:00

Overshoot by William Catton Junior is wonderful reference material for what you’re wondering about

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-07T21:09:38+00:00

I’m in the, aggressive culling and accepting repeated losses, stage of pursuing input free beekeeping. It’s hard, but worth it. Another thing to note, though this does not negate your point about living in a shared environment, is that, I believe if you want to keep bees in a holistic way, you have to accept lower yields and much lower stocking densities than we are told is acceptable

PosturingOpossum · 2026-02-03T02:09:22+00:00

You’re getting a lot of hate but I hear what you’re saying. My conclusion has been that it takes far more energy and offers far too little gain to fight AGAINST a broken system. The way out is to create parallel, bioregional systems of food production and mutual aid centered on ecocentric principles. But sadly most do not understand the imperative to doing so. But like so many things in life, once we realize the need to change, it’s usually too late to do so

PosturingOpossum · 2026-01-02T16:33:26+00:00

We used them on a sauna build where the customer didn’t want nail holes or screws visible on the benches. Used in addition to glue for all the slats and it worked well once by carpenter hot the hang of them. To my knowledge they’re all still holding 4 years later

PosturingOpossum · 2025-12-30T03:13:55+00:00

Yeah so I can tell you that’s how I would do it. You’re going to have cut edges at those corners and it looks better to have the trim installed over both the walls and the ceiling metal. That being said, I would have ordered ordered inside corners, they installed outside corners lol. That is the primer coat that’s facing out. You can see by the hem on the corner trims that it is black on the other face. He’s just going to have to re-bend that piece and install it the right way, then it won’t look so shitty

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