The World is Closer to a Food Crisis Than Most People Realize

[magical thyme]

5. exactly.

And it is too late already.

Our current "civilization" is doomed, like it or not. It is a matter of "when" not "if." Nobody can really predict exactly when...there are too many unknown "tripping points" out there.

Our current "factory farm" agricultural practices are not sustainable. Annual tilling destroys topsoil through erosion, which leads to water loss, which leads to further destruction of topsoil and spreading drought.

Large swaths of mono-culture production leaves crops vulnerable to insects and blights. Pesticides lead to resistance and kill off natural bug-eaters, which ultimately leads to more insects.

Heavy reliance on fossil fuels -- used in artificial fertilizers (replacing natural fertilizers and soil conditioners), pesticides, to build and run the farm machinery, to wrap the food products in plastic and ship it thousands of mile -- has contributed to climate change, furthering the "micro-climate" drought in the factory "bread basket."

It is not a matter of "if." It is a matter of when. And since we are only just now beginning to see the effects of CO2 emissions from 40 or so years ago, it is only going to worsen with time. Nothing goes straight up or down when you look at graphs in small enough increments. So there may still be "good" years, but the bad ones will be more frequent and will trend toward record-breaking worse.