The biggest increase in GHG / environmental impact from food production overall is land use change, so the fact that organic farming takes up (way) more space means it's already lost in terms of environmental impact, particularly for climate change.
As far as pesticides are concerned, organic pesticides (yes, they do use them) are much weaker than chemical ones, and they often end up having to use many times more volume (I've read up to 8x more) to get the same effect.
You are correct about buying in season (and probably correct about the fertilisers IDK), but in terms of buying local, sometimes it's actually more environmentally friendly to purchase imported products if the country you are importing them from has a more efficient climate for growing said crop (even when taking into account shipping GHG emissions)
Thank you this is pretty much everything I wanted to say and more organized than I was willing to put effort in for.
I also want to add that many organic pesticides have more harmful environmental effects, not only because they have to use more (but that doesn’t help), copper sulfate being an obvious example.
The biggest increase in GHG / environmental impact from food production overall is land use change, so the fact that organic farming takes up (way) more space means it's already lost in terms of environmental impact, particularly for climate change.
As far as pesticides are concerned, organic pesticides (yes, they do use them) are much weaker than chemical ones, and they often end up having to use many times more volume (I've read up to 8x more) to get the same effect.
You are correct about buying in season (and probably correct about the fertilisers IDK), but in terms of buying local, sometimes it's actually more environmentally friendly to purchase imported products if the country you are importing them from has a more efficient climate for growing said crop (even when taking into account shipping GHG emissions)
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Thank you this is pretty much everything I wanted to say and more organized than I was willing to put effort in for.
I also want to add that many organic pesticides have more harmful environmental effects, not only because they have to use more (but that doesn’t help), copper sulfate being an obvious example.