We need to paradigm shift
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We need to paradigm shift
Population growth has outpaced current food production. Technologies developed to increase food production are having a devastating effect on the land, rivers, streams, lakes and the oceans where the food is grown. Chemical pollution of surface water and aquifers have entered the food chain and have crossed unacceptable levels.
It has been found that more than 50% of all pollution on this planet and more than 25% of GHG(Green House Gas) emissions can be attributed to agriculture sector and the production of chemical technologies in the industry. Current food production practices are unsustainable. Soil has lost its natural microbiological equilibrium and grows nothing without the use of polluting synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides being used, sprayed or injected into and onto it. The organic matter of soil has been depleted, fertility degraded and sequestration capabilities have been lost; hence, causing desertification along with deforestation. And it can be attributed as the largest causes of pollution and climate change which has impacted entire human race.
Human race is under survival threat due to loss of fertile soil, biodiversity, indigenous seeds and loss of knowledge of natural or organic way of farming. If you ask any modern day farmer, nurseryman to go organic, they will simple Google to know what it is!!! If you calculate current destruction rate of soil due to de-carbonisation, erosion, desertification, and chemical pollution; it is for sure that within 50 years from now we will not only suffer serious damage to human health but we will literally no longer have arable topsoil to feed ourselves.
You have to wonder how we human animals can get the natural full balance of nutrition we need from eating food grown only with NPK, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides and not from the full complement of minerals and nutrients found in the earth’s natural soils. This imbalance of nutrition does not allow our human immune systems the strength needed to combat disease and has led to the increase of prevalent diseases, like Cancer.
The oceans have been purged of fish stocks and polluted beyond capacity. How can we expect to have sustainable ocean fish stocks when we pillage the habitat in which they grow and pollute what is left with our toxic waste of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, synthetic fertilizers, organic matter from intensive livestock production and more contaminates that bleed from the land into the rivers, to end up in the ocean where now thousands of square kilometers surrounding major river estuaries around the globe are dead zones. The unsustainable food production systems and “conventional” agricultural practices are creating disasters yet unseen and are contaminating our planet leading to destruction of the Garden.
It has been said, that with the introduction of 2% organic matter to the agricultural land globally the entire human GHG emissions would be sequestered and the human effect on Climate Change would be mitigated. To do this will take a total “disruption” of the status quo in global agriculture supported by legislation to defend the rights of environment.
Economically viable alternatives must be demonstrated with the resources, education and support available for growers to implement permaculture and regenerative agriculture techniques that work with and mimic nature to regenerate the natural microbial equilibrium in soil.
We should encourage people for regenerative agriculture practices which are soil-centric and should preclude the use of synthetic chemicals of any kind in agriculture completely displacing and disrupting the unsustainable ‘conventional’ agri-business models, without government intervention. And believe, it will produce an abundance of locally grown organic food, restore biodiversity, reduce pollution and provide farmers with the practical alternative and impetus to change.