[garte]

Cozy small time agriculture in the west is a small part of your general food supply. The rest is in places you do not want to live and is called monoculture.

All "raw materials" you mentioned are not produced "in the countryside" in either Denmark or most of the West.

It all starts with oil and energy. Nothing else matters as much. So getting off oil and producing energy in other ways is at the forefront of our struggle as a species and if you deny this progress because it hinders the view from your detached house porch I get the impression you have not really realized the situation we are in.

[cucumber3732842]

I was speaking globally, it's not like Denmark is producing tons of crops. I agree small time boutique agriculture and a lot of the regulatory policy (i.e. crapping on any sort of value producing industrial activity while exempting other things of which farming is one) that enables it is a short sighted scourge that stunts economic development, a sort of "the island tourism economy" we have at home if you will.

That said, I'm happy to watch the people who want to peddle that garbage fling poo at the people who want to peddle bigco solar/wind farm projects because they're bad too. Most of them are miracles of financial/regulatory engineering that only really move panels and electrons around as a pretext for the former and the end result is they drive up the marginal price of all sorts of things and far too often only deliver value to the investors. This is shortsighted and will ultimately hamper adoption of these technologies and is already damaging our institutions.