Agronomists found a way to grow enough calories to feed the burgeoning population, but it was done with little regard for nutrition or the impact on the planet.
At nearly 8 billion and growing, humanity doesn't have a lot of space left — at least in a philosophical sense. Sure, there are still areas of the planet where you can throw a rock and not hit anyone; but that's a function of our species' weird distribution. At first, we were spread out, chasing animals that were bound to the distributed resources of our planet. Then we hacked the system, and we called this first great hack"agriculture.
To be fair, we've come up short from time to time. Concentrated populations in cities and regions became their own miniature ecosystems in a bottle, and occasionally the resources of that region would run out and there would be a"correction." Corrections are a sterilized term for death, destruction, misery — the kinds of hell that many modern people cannot remember or even comprehend.
The green revolution also gave birth to global supply chains trading food across thousands of miles with billions of lives hanging in its balance. It brought with it a campaign of environmental destruction measured in millions of acres of forests destroyed, prairies plowed up and gigatons of CO2 dumped into an already warming atmosphere. It may very well be the crowning act of the Anthropocene.Today we are once again faced with a do-or-die scenario.
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