This looks like a good documentary to watch. Usually costs US$7 to buy or US$14.99 to watch it through Amazon US.
With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW is a character driven story of innovators behind decentralized solutions and cutting edge technologies. Underdog leaders face unpredictable challenges as they fight to heal our broken food system and regenerate the planet's dying soils.
Yeah, I have already booked tickets to Mars.
Don't forget to pack a beanie and a jumper.
We won't need them here… global warming and all that :)
Stop invading Mars! Mars is for Martians.
@mr_asstight: Why, don't be asstight, buy a ticket, fly over there and see for yourself. Don't believe what the government says.
Stop invading Mars! Mars is for Martians.
You won't be allowed onto Mars.
The Martians have an offshore detention moon…
Already prepared, got a bunch of them https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/487804
and https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/nerd-head-with-a-prope…
already registered marsbargain.com.au … Getting in early
Might wanna work on a local mirror then as that 24min packet time will cause no end of worn out F5 keys and constant refreshing.
lol this was a running joke in nz. Usually among chinese/asian people for some reason. eg "how was you holiday on Mars?" "oh, it was great…" probably from some movie I haven't seen…
Less farmland would be required if population wasn't growing exponentially.
population growth exacerbates the problem but it is not the problem. If we weren't actively destroying arable land at the rate we are we'd easily be able to feed the global population well into numbers that would trigger any other end-of-world scenario well before mass starvation.
It is the problem. Less people = less need for farming = less destruction.
the farming need not be destructive.
Put them in any order you want. We're all guilty to some extent but that doesn't let the manipulators and those charged with management (leadership being nigh on non-existent) at the top off the hook. One of the few reasons for hoping that there is life and reckoning after death is that most of these aholes would get their comeuppance. Chances of that: 1/Infinity (apologies to mathematicians).
Yes, the current rate of growth and use of land is not sustainable. If we moved to plant-based eating, instead of feeding plants to livestock animals and having grazing land, it would have a large benefit. For example, to feed people with plant-based food takes only one seventeenth the land compared to farming animals.
ref. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/660S/4690010
Why do we need so many people though? It's only to be able to supply more low cost labour, and more consumers, for "never ending" company growth.
Are you going to be first to leave?
@chymb: Hurr durr people should kill themselves. Would be a lot easier to put a limit on how many children are born.
@brendanm: Just do what Chinese did.
On the other hand killing oneself is not a bad idea. You first.
Or if people consumed less meat
behind decentralized solutions
That sounds extremely inefficient…
so does shipping in oranges from the US, but I suppose the required incentives must be in place.
Elon Musk didnt need no incentive to load up a rocket w a Tesla Roadster and send it the long way to … a Martian moon! ;-)
Was just reading into this stuff, can’t wait to give it a look ^^ thanks op
A new age religion?
With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth,
Has anyone got proof of this? It sounds like the latest, lightweight hogwash to sell a story.
Most of Africa in 60 years, I expect it'll have farmable soil just as it does now. Europe and usa may have destroyed much of their land, air animals, and soil.
I'd worry more about something along the lines of oxygen depletion crisis, or other massive ecological and/or environment integrated systems breakdown.
But then why worry, it's not the masses fault, and it wont do us much good worrying.
Syria and Libya once had good farmland, but due to lack of foresight, their land is not so fertile. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/30/topsoil-farm…
"But then why worry, it's not the masses fault, and it wont do us much good worrying."
True, worrying doesn't do much. Informing ourselves and taking steps in each of our lives to be part of a sustainable solution would be more helpful. (What does that mean? Research and decide what you can and are willing to do)
Thanks OP. I'd also like to recommend "Seed: The Untold Story" to those taking an interest in this sort of thing.
The solution is Soylent Green. Swedish scientists are already working on it.
Swedish scientist advocates eating humans to combat climate change
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/swedish-scientist-ea…
Seems sort of silly to worry about dirt given the effects of climate change.