If the answer is my building, then all that is needed is a zoning change, and the profit motive will do the rest.

If the answer is your building, then massive subsidies (or a philanthropist) would be needed to replace the office building with orange trees. Such subsidies would be taken from taxpayers in exchange for…a smaller chance of so-called “global warming”?

Faith rests on the unmeasurable and unverifiable. And it’s in the name of faith that people can be most easily duped into anything.

The environmental problem was solved long ago by the accumulation of wealth that enabled people to buy clean air. Poor people cannot afford catalytic converters, poor companies cannot afford efficient technologies, and people in rich countries can pay people in poor countries to produce pollution (and simultaneously make them better off).

One more thing: Agriculture is filthy business. Pesticides, fertilizer runoff, animal waste, flies, and so forth are not part of the romantic image of the “family farm” and so are generally not considered by the urban population.

And besides, we already have urban agriculture. It’s called a “plant nursery”. No subsidies needed.

If the answer is my building, then all that is needed is a zoning change, and the profit motive will do the rest.

If the answer is your building, then massive subsidies (or a philanthropist) would be needed to replace the office building with orange trees. Such subsidies would be taken from taxpayers in exchange for…a smaller chance of so-called “global warming”?

Faith rests on the unmeasurable and unverifiable. And it’s in the name of faith that people can be most easily duped into anything.

The environmental problem was solved long ago by the accumulation of wealth that enabled people to buy clean air. Poor people cannot afford catalytic converters, poor companies cannot afford efficient technologies, and people in rich countries can pay people in poor countries to produce pollution (and simultaneously make them better off).

One more thing: Agriculture is filthy business. Pesticides, fertilizer runoff, animal waste, flies, and so forth are not part of the romantic image of the “family farm” and so are generally not considered by the urban population.

And besides, we already have urban agriculture. It’s called a “plant nursery”. No subsidies needed.