time2lose to interestingasfuck · 9 days agoAlmería, Spain's sea of plastic (greenhouses) seen from above. Covering 40000 hectares, it produces around 3.5 million tons of fruits & veggies every year, capable of feeding over 500M people.imagemessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1130arrow-down1imageAlmería, Spain's sea of plastic (greenhouses) seen from above. Covering 40000 hectares, it produces around 3.5 million tons of fruits & veggies every year, capable of feeding over 500M people.time2lose to interestingasfuck · 9 days agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThe_vlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoIt’s not that much when you consider the same production in the open field environment would take 10x the land area. I have been in a bunch of those greenhouses. It looks almost like snow when you get up on the hills.
It’s not that much when you consider the same production in the open field environment would take 10x the land area.
I have been in a bunch of those greenhouses. It looks almost like snow when you get up on the hills.
It’s still a big area