Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.
  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    3 days ago

    Cool, for people in the US this should coincide nicely with all the rich folks doubling down on corporate greed, plus a certain President-Elect’s tariffs.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 days 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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      Oh good, you posted an updated version!

      I’ve seen people dismiss this as an old, out of date prediction from the 70s, unaware that… its been revisited and updated, and is tracking reality … scarily accurately, basically.

      (Recalibration23 is this paper, BAU is an older, but still fairly recent recalibration of the World3 model.)

      So basically, we, right now, are either at, very close to, or have already surpassed:

      Peak Industrial Output

      Peak Food Production

      Peak Human Population

      These things all rapidly decline, or collapse, starting basically now.

      HWI = Human Welfare Index.

      The average living human in 2035 will have a quality of life comparable to the average human in about 1965.

      Average human QoL in 2050 will be comparable to average human QoL during the Great Depression / WW2.

      … Good luck everybody! Have fun at work today!

  • bokherif@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Just another name for corporate greed. All these years the soil was good enough, but now even the soil is unproductive for these greedy bastards.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    3 days 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” 🤬

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days 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@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 days 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 flaying us with could cover this additional cost, but the line must go up.

      :D:D:D