Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Sustainable alternatives like hemp can replace scarce resources like forests and mines.
- In plain terms
- Use fast-growing hemp instead of destroying forests and mines for products.
- What can you take from it?
- Choose renewable resources over depleting finite ones.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What resources can we replace?
- How do we balance industry and nature?
Another view
Industrial farming of crops like hemp has its own environmental costs.
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