Competition, not consumption, drives global destruction
”We have the reduce consumption and resource use”, is a statement that is gaining some traction.| gardenearth.substack.com
”We have the reduce consumption and resource use”, is a statement that is gaining some traction.| gardenearth.substack.com
Now, I return to the collapse theme.| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
A diet is the wrong entry point in the analysis of the food system and planetary health.| gardenearth.substack.com
Why (EU) policies to support young farmers will be counter-productive unless the whole farm system is reformed| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
Why the global capitalist civilization is doomed by internal and external, biophysical and social, material and ideological factors.| gardenearth.substack.com
In my previous article I asked why we grow food and discussed three different situations: 1) the transition from foraging to farming 2) the first agricultural revolution (with the example of Sweden in the 19th century) and 3) the situation today.| gardenearth.substack.com
What is a collapse? Do I believe in collapse? If so, what kind of collapse do I envision and what will come thereafter? Is the current system collapsing?| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
Why certified organic has reached its peak and what comes next| gardenearth.substack.com
With a rather strange twist George Monbiot, columnist at the Guardian, promotes regenerative agriculture practices and dismiss farming as harmful altogether – and worst of all is grazing livestock.| gardenearth.substack.com
Global food production increased with over 50% between 1986 and 2009.| gardenearth.substack.com
It is often claimed from proponents of conventional farming that the use of chemical fertilizers, in particular nitrogen, is a prerequisite for binding more carbon in soils (see for instance the critique of regenerative agriculture by the World Resource Institute| gardenearth.substack.com
Standardization is contradictory to diversity, the driver of evolution.| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
If AI will make machines making machines making machines, capitalism will collapse| gardenearth.substack.com
Why we should apply an ecosystem perspective on our food system and our diets| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
Should we not ask why consumption patterns are so different than recommendations?| gardenearth.substack.com
Over a third of all countries cannot meet self-sufficiency for more than two of the seven essential food groups.| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
A healthy diet costed in global average US$3.68 per day in 2021.| gardenearth.substack.com
Reflections over my path and choices made| gardenearth.substack.com
How does energy and debt affect economic growth?| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
Refuse consumerism and de-commodify food| gardenearth.substack.com
Reading Richard Wilkinson and Joseph Tainter| gardenearth.substack.com
What if what we call progress and increased welfare are just things we have to do in order to keep the system running?| gardenearth.substack.com
Is it heme, is it the colour, is it the species?| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
Cranes, asparagus, calves and yet another piece of pointless research| Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
“Global Eating Disorder is one of the most comprehensive and practical analyses of what will soon become dysfunctional in our global industrialized food system given the challenges ahead of us---end of cheap energy, depleting natural resources and impacts of climate change.| gardenearth.substack.com
How four megatrends shape the food we eat.| gardenearth.substack.com
On the internal limits to growth| gardenearth.substack.com
Why a transition to a service economy will not reduce our ecological footprint| gardenearth.substack.com
We have to produce more to feed a growing population - but what if it is the other way round?| gardenearth.substack.com
Without doubt, global agriculture output has increased tremendously over the last sixty years.*How much, which crops or commodities, how and why are things I will address in a series of articles.| gardenearth.substack.com
Why are birth rates falling?| gardenearth.substack.com
How nitrogen fertilizers changed the food system. Part 4.| gardenearth.substack.com
How nitrogen fertilizers changed the food system. Part 2.| gardenearth.substack.com
Nitrogen fertilizers is disrupting natural process on par with fossil fuels| gardenearth.substack.com
When it comes to food, George Monbiot applies the opposite logic compared to when he discusses poverty, growth or climate policy.| gardenearth.substack.com
How nitrogen fertilizers changed the food system. Part 3.| gardenearth.substack.com
