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I suspect that 7.9 billion people cannot exist in perfect balance with nature. Or at least that it requires a genius, hitherto unseen setup like some really clever mass permaculture.
Tech investors are obsessing over agri-tech investments at the moment, largely because they agree with your opinion.
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This is very close to home. M̶y̶ ̶w̶i̶f̶e̶ The person I am in a stable partnership with (what is the forum approved language so I don’t upset anyone?) is the co founder of a business doing direct measurement of soil carbon with a view to farms being able to accurately establish current soil carbon baseline and then assess how regenerative farming or rewilding increase carbon sequestration. Pitching for investment has been crazy with people approaching them wanting to get involved.
dancing james
Yup, plantations are plantations, whether they be wheat, pine, bananas....
I suspect that 7.9 billion people cannot exist in perfect balance with nature. Or at least that it requires a genius, hitherto unseen setup like some really clever mass permaculture. But we simply need too many resources. And when we grow/produce/extract those resources I think we're often choosing "least terrible" rather than "most sustainable". It's damaging because of scale.
The global overpopulation feels a bit like trying to throw a 400 person rave in a village tea shop. You cannot expect it to hold up to the abuse.