:) another provocative post. Here is what I think:

There is no normalcy to weather. Of course, "climate changes" and what will one do about it changing? My brother, who has a garden, told us that in the recent years it was so little rain that ground water was affected.

People mostly feel the weather on a very subjective basis and are not able to connect their feels to long term weather observations. As I see it, the perfect balance never took place, there were good and rich harvests and bad and poor ones. If farmers (and peoples) were lucky, they had good harvests in a row of summers which supported growth.

What I think many of us refer to is the over production and the way we waste resources. Throwing away food after it has been sold at a high price in the supermarkets. Some years ago my husband was part of an organization which calls themselves "food collectors". The deal is to collect as many food as possible, before it goes into the trash and so spare the supermarket chains the costs. They don't let you pick the leftovers as a single person, otherwise people may stop buying things but wait until the shop closes and get it for free. Which I personally don't think they would, but you know how things go.

If you are lucky and have a garden or a piece of land, like you do and you decided earlier in life that this was the way to live, I can only support it. But the majority of people don't either have the means or the knowledge to self sustain. Here in the city you spend more money to buy from the local farmers but certainly they are not able to feed the millions of people.

What disturbs me is the great guilt trip people put on themselves and others if they do have ​the "wrong life style".
If the government was interested in supporting self sustained life styles, the would drive huge campaigns and advertise perma culture and farming as the new way of life. Which they don't., as far as I can tell.

Greta is a phenomena, a sign of our times, where young people put themselves into the "Weltschmerz" and fall for political activity instead of turning to their own business.