Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.
  • @[email protected]
    1•8 minutes ago

    “Protecting our soil isn’t just an environmental priority; it’s an economic and social imperative.”

    Corporations, who own most of the world’s resources, the American government and by extension most of the world: “nah, not enough short term profits in that” 🤬

  • @TheDemonBuer
    4•1 hour ago

    The World3, global system dynamics model projects global food production peaking this decade. That doesn’t necessarily mean that’s for certain what’s going to happen. It’s only a projection, and only one model, but I think it’s an important model. It’s a projection based on the assumption that there are physical limits to growth. That assumption seems pretty irrefutably true to me. There is a finite amount of energy and other resources available to us on the planet, seems inevitable that we will hit some hard limit(s), eventually. The World3 is an attempt to project when we might hit those limits, and, if the World3 projection is accurate, it might be soon.

  • @WoodScientist
    3•2 hours ago

    Alright boney boys, let’s go! War and Pestilence have already been riding for a few years. Famine, it’s your turn to hit the trail!

    • the post of tom joad
      2•11 minutes ago

      Yeah right? Don’t tell us " um, hey. there’s a good reason prices will rise" when we have been watching prices rise “just cuz they can.”

      The record profits they have been flying us with could cover this additional cost, but the line must go up.

      :D:D:D