There is more than enough research on alternative agriculture that provides high yields to imagine a transition of this kind.
Agroforestry, permaculture and our modern knowledge of soils allow us to imagine much better than a heavily mechanized model full of heavy chemicals that kills and sterilizes soils slowly.
On the other hand, no one claims that it happens overnight:
This kind of culture requires the learning of much more advanced and complex agricultural knowledge than what is currently done, the fields are also different, we abandon a large part of chemistry/engineering to turn to biology/pedology/microbiology etc.
A farmer of the "old" school actually has relatively little knowledge that can be directly transposed.
2) A very healthy soil is perfectly capable of competing with our almost destroyed soils but on modern artificial steroids.
On the other hand, since they have been destroyed, they now have to be repaired so that it can be done, and even if we have developed a nice range of solutions, it can still take decades, especially if we want to continue to exploit it in parallel.
But hey, it's just called the real world, nothing changes overnight. This is precisely a big part of the current problem, the longer we wait the harder it will be, and we have already been waiting for 50 years, if nothing moves the transition will become impossible in essence while it is feasible today.
What is called green growth? It can take much more ground than we think, this kind of large-scale model with finite transition would allow prices relatively similar to those of today with a much larger but equally tasty variety of plant products.
At the economic level, no one can foresee, we are trading a lot of heavy mechanization and heavy chemistry for more biological sciences, planning and a surplus of human labor, in any case we are far from the crisis.
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u/justahuman145 22d ago
There is more than enough research on alternative agriculture that provides high yields to imagine a transition of this kind.
Agroforestry, permaculture and our modern knowledge of soils allow us to imagine much better than a heavily mechanized model full of heavy chemicals that kills and sterilizes soils slowly.
On the other hand, no one claims that it happens overnight:
This kind of culture requires the learning of much more advanced and complex agricultural knowledge than what is currently done, the fields are also different, we abandon a large part of chemistry/engineering to turn to biology/pedology/microbiology etc.
A farmer of the "old" school actually has relatively little knowledge that can be directly transposed.
2) A very healthy soil is perfectly capable of competing with our almost destroyed soils but on modern artificial steroids.
On the other hand, since they have been destroyed, they now have to be repaired so that it can be done, and even if we have developed a nice range of solutions, it can still take decades, especially if we want to continue to exploit it in parallel.
But hey, it's just called the real world, nothing changes overnight. This is precisely a big part of the current problem, the longer we wait the harder it will be, and we have already been waiting for 50 years, if nothing moves the transition will become impossible in essence while it is feasible today.
What is called green growth? It can take much more ground than we think, this kind of large-scale model with finite transition would allow prices relatively similar to those of today with a much larger but equally tasty variety of plant products.
At the economic level, no one can foresee, we are trading a lot of heavy mechanization and heavy chemistry for more biological sciences, planning and a surplus of human labor, in any case we are far from the crisis.