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Southern Europe seems to be converting farmland into solar farms. And new forests seem to be all monoculture Eucalyptus, fast growing for commercial reasons, but sadly empty of wildlife.

As much as I'd love for Europe to be reforested, the reduced food security might come back to bite us.

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standardUser 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is there a reason you and some many commenters here are concerned about food security? Has this became a nativist rallying cry of some sort? Because by all fact-based accounts there is no problem with food production in Europe.

	▲	jopsen 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And if food security became an issue we could reverse policies. This won't be implemented overnight. We could also just make less bio fuel, or eat more plants less animals, etc. Lots of options, sure we need some food security, but there are limits to how much overproduction we need.
	▲	nradov 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There have been many famines in Europe throughout the past few centuries. Perhaps we're now at the end of history and nothing like that will ever happen again but since countries aren't willing to take that bet.

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skrause a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Food security is not an issue at all. For example in Germany around 20% of all farmland is used for "energy plants" (biogas etc.). Even in Germany solar planels have around a 28 times higher efficiency per area than biogas plants, so there is a lot of potential to repurpose farm land without changing food production at all.

	▲	logicchains 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>there is a lot of potential to repurpose farm land without changing food production at all This takes years, which isn't enough in the case of a major food security event, i.e. war.