Why Farming Is Broken (And Always Has Been)
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. Ten thousand years ago, we humans came up with a revolutionary new idea for how to feed ourselves: agriculture! Plough land, plant a crop, water, fertilize, harvest, and repeat each year. And today, we’re pretty much still doing the same thing as 10,000 years ago. Thanks to the industrial revolution, we ARE producing much larger quantities of food than we used to. But we are also putting far more resources into producing food than we used to. As a result, water levels in the world's largest aquifers are falling faster than they’re being replenished; our underground supply of phosphorous – a nutrient critical to plant photosynthesis – will be exhausted in a few hundred years; and we’re using up the very ground ...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. Ten thousand years ago, we humans came up with a revolutionary new idea for how to feed ourselves: agriculture! Plough land, plant a crop, water, fertilize, harvest, and repeat each year. And today, we’re pretty much still doing the same thing as 10,000 years ago. Thanks to the industrial revolution, we ARE producing much larger quantities of food than we used to. But we are also putting far more resources into producing food than we used to. As a result, water levels in the world's largest aquifers are falling faster than they’re being replenished; our underground supply of phosphorous – a nutrient critical to plant photosynthesis – will be exhausted in a few hundred years; and we’re using up the very ground ...
