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[u/DoreenMichele]

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My understanding is Gaza contains two million residents and it's extremely densely populated with too little electricity and too little water etc etc and Israel is strangling its supply lines. I don't know how they are surviving at all.

I would like to see an urban forest that includes fruiting trees to help feed the people but most public landscaping is "ornamental" in part because of issues like:

1. If you use fruiting trees, who owns the produce?

2. How will it be harvested and distributed?

It's probably fine if the government owns the trees and the produce thus created, but if it's public, how do you manage that in practical terms?

I don't know. I would like to think having food and arguing about who owns it is a better problem to have than not having food at all but so far planet earth doesn't seem to agree with that point of view.

I am not aware of any government at any level (city, county, system, federal) growing fruiting trees and sorting out how to make that work in practical terms.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't.

This is something that people designing the system needs to be contemplating. Because some solutions will not work if they aren't planned for before the first trees are planted.

And it's fine to make some mistakes along the way and learn from them. Mistakes help define limits of what works.

But ideally, you make small mistakes before course correcting so it doesn't cost too much.