But what I really, really want is hemp clothing. When I was in Atlanta in the 90s, there was a hemp shop, where I bought the best jeans, shorts, and hats I've ever had. They got nothing but more comfortable over time, breathed excellently and never molded (not that I tried). I could imagine that they would've lasted my lifetime, or even more.
Sadly, they shrunk terribly over time, and by that I mean I "grew" out of them :-)
Now, all I've seen on the net are 60%-40% cotton blends, IIRC, not the 100% hemp that was available back then. It doesn't look like the new cannabis acceptance here in America has produced hemp cloth, but I could be wrong. I imagine that growers are more focused on the likely more lucrative drug version of the plant. That said, it's been years since I searched the net for sellers, but my daughter has the skills and the 503a to make me a sweet kilt and jumpsuit and long-sleeve long-hanging shirt, should the funds come through.
"Hemp for victory!" --WWII American poster slogan
Must be difficult as a person who doesn’t exploit the biosphere.. you’ll have to let us know how you mastered photosynthesis.
And people use most anything in that capacity, Rule #42 is not a theorem, after all.
While the callously selfish oppressive monsters don't care how their victims feel, so long as they get their pleasure. Greed for money and sex are really the same kind of selfish vice. And callousness to the misery of others and heartlessly disrespecting a person's human right to choose what we do with whom they will, are two of the primary drivers of unhappiness upon our Earth today.
Compassion is a balm for all such vices, but we must choose to learn the truth of its importance and then choose to manifest it in our ideals, attitudes, and behaviors. It, like all things human, is within our power, both individually and collectively, but, first, we must give a sh_t.
Humans probably spend fewer calories on survival (with better results) and more calories on pleasure than any other species. This is partly thanks to society.
So humans probably "pay" the least of any species just to exist.
That’s true we aren’t cheap on the pleasure calories, on the other hands most mammals seems to include pleasure in hunting or building their shelter or other activities. Think to dolphins, Wolfe, or rabbits. We humans have created many pleasant activities to forget our workday -which is not a pleasure for most-, while the lion enjoy its nap before an exiting hunt tonight with fellows.
By becoming attached to such a successful species as humans, any symbiont species has an extremely good chance of surviving for as long as the host species. Including long after they'd have gone extinct naturally.
Most species that humans like or find useful will eventually end up colonizing entire star systems along with us. Those species will continue to live on in their evolutionary descendants long after the sun exapnds and earth becomes inhospitable.
Personally I call that a successful species.
Or we could just leave the worms alone and let them be hunted to extinction by predators or die out in natural climate or ecological shifts over time. I guess that's nicer than species continuity into galactic time scales.
I doubt the livestock would define itself as a "successful” if it could use language.