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Feed or Save Our World ?
Feed or Save Our World; that is the question asked by farmers. The simple academic answer is we must save the world, then we can feed the humans. In trying harder and harder simply to feed ten billion we are destroying our home. It must also be pointed out that it is a shared home. We now know we cannot survive without the ecological support of stable, ancient and complex ecosystems. These ecosystems need land and water every bit as much as we do. Here are a few hard facts; Climate change is already responsible for more migration than conflict; Land is a scarce resource and becoming scarcer by the…
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“Be aware that this is now a fundamental threat to humanity and we’ve really got to do something now.”
“Be aware that this is now a a fundamental threat to humanity”. This a stark warning to every being on this planet that we must act now. If we don’t we wont be here very much longer. There is now no doubt that this period of Earth’s history will be called the Anthropocene. This is likely to be the shortest era in over 400 billion years. If we don’t act now we are heading for mass extinctions and rapid further warming of the climate. This will lead to unprecedented migration of displaced populations and weather related natural disasters. Wars will ensue, mass starvation and disease will become normal across the…
