A creative moment of your time please.

[Fat Tone]

Still an inch. Of girth.

Or you could ask her to get an extra stitch

[ZokesPro]

What’s the smallest thing that would make the biggest difference?

Tolerance.

[Gurm]

Or you could ask her to get an extra stitch

There's actually a procedure now...

http://www.drmatlock.com/

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Seeds

and the knowledge to understand how to have personal family gardens. I know it seems silly but if everyone with a backyard grew their own vegetables it would make life better.

[Mehen]

Tolerance.

ditto

[Helevitia]

One word... Hope

or one sentence...You are not alone

[Helevitia]

Wife said, "attitude"
son said, "smile"

[Umfriend]

Seeds

and the knowledge to understand how to have personal family gardens. I know it seems silly but if everyone with a backyard grew their own vegetables it would make life better.

It does seem silly and I disagree.

Don't get me wrong, my mother in law grows her own veggies and it is great to have really fresh food when I'm with her. I hope I'll do it myself someday as well. However, productivity otherwise is low and the world will be a worse place if we all spent time inefficiently on food production.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

I find it funny that you've went through 3 pages of ideas and only disagreed with mine.

So you think if every person in the world had a place and knowledge to grow their own food it would make the world worse.

Personally I would think it would lead to healthier lives. Not to mention cutting down the World Hunger Situation.


But lets see the question was:


"What’s the smallest thing that would make the biggest difference?"

lets say i was wrong and we didn't have seeds at all.. where would we be.

[Mikko]

Give a hug to someone you care for. It'll make the difference..

[Gurm]

Give a hug to someone you care for. It'll make the difference..

If you care for them, haven't you already hugged them? Maybe you should give a hug to someone you DON'T care for.

Err... on second thought, that's a bad idea. Lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Mikko]

If you care for them, haven't you already hugged them? Maybe you should give a hug to someone you DON'T care for.

Err... on second thought, that's a bad idea. Lawsuit waiting to happen.

Just hug someone..

[Gurm]

Just hug someone..

Oh, you're one of THOSE... those ... those SERIAL HUGGERS!

EVERYBODY SCATTER!

[Umfriend]

I find it funny that you've went through 3 pages of ideas and only disagreed with mine.

I hope you did not take me as picking on you. One thing that sets your answer apart from most (if not all) others is that you had a very concreet one. "Inspiration", "being nice", "tolerance" are all fine and well but it is not directly clear what is meant by these and what the expected consequences are. That is what makes it easier to react to you as opposed to others.

So you think if every person in the world had a place and knowledge to grow their own food it would make the world worse.

That is not what you suggested. I agree it would be good if everyone had the knowledge how to provide for food (including hunting, slaughtering, gutting etc.) and had a place to do it (which would, I think, put a strain on availability of arable land though).

You suggested that we'd actually all do that and with that I disagreed. Do you have any idea how much more efficient farming is done these days in large scale operations? It is impossible to get that kind of efficiency if we'd all go into autarky. And to fully grow your food you'd almost have to do that. I've spoken with a few farmers who took over the farm from thier fathers, and they from theirs etc. They produce more know with just two hired employees than they did pre-WWII with fourty... It is impossible (or at the least an enormous waste) to provide each individual with the capital investments to obtain such yields.

Personally I would think it would lead to healthier lives. Not to mention cutting down the World Hunger Situation.

Again, I am strongly in favour of honest and broad education on food production, diet etc.

But lets see the question was:


"What’s the smallest thing that would make the biggest difference?"

lets say i was wrong and we didn't have seeds at all.. where would we be.

Yeah well, I admit, without seeds we'd have a problem. Course, water almost has a similar aspect to it.

[Brian Ellis]

I know it seems silly but if everyone with a backyard grew their own vegetables it would make life better.

I emphasise part of what Liz said. She didn't say that everyone should have a backyard. I agree with her, at least partially. We grow fruit and veggies in ours. I don't say that it is cheaper than buying mass-produced farmed produce: it isn't. But the quality is not comparable. If I pick an orange or a peach (in due season, of course), we almost drown in the flavoursome juice. If I pick a tomato or cucumber, it will taste like what a tomato or a cucumber should taste like, not like a waterlogged splooch. And it leaves more of the less good, low cost, fruit and veggie available for those who don't have the luck, means or wish to have a backyard.