Is current cannabis cultivation sustainable over the long term? What can we do to help in any way? Let’s go over some of the problems and some of the solutions to make our crops ready for a future with a shortage of energy and raw materials.
Cannabis is nowadays cultivated using techniques that do not guarantee long-term sustainability. Excessive energy consumption, profligate use of materials, many are the problems, but there are also solutions. We look over the main challenges and propose some easy alternatives to push forward a more environmentally friendly cultivation that is thoughtful of future generations.
It’s been almost forty years since Earth’s global biocapacity was reached. In other words, we use more natural resources than the planet is able to produce, and so far we have been able to live thanks to the provisions put in storage long ago, especially fossil fuel ones. But as it is well known, these will not last forever. The planet is showing signs of exhaustion (loss of fertile land, climate change,…