Thread by @PeterGelderloos

I think the rains are finally coming, which should be cause for celebration. But after 8 months with barely any, the earth is dust, and if we get strong summer downpours, so much topsoil is going to wash away.

The people who think we can maintain industrial agriculture with
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just a few modifications, they really have no clue about the world we're living in. Unfortunately, they're the ones making the recommendations for the changes we need, from the UN, agribusiness (obviously), universities, and at the head of social movements in the Global North.

For those wondering about the connection: the monocrop machine harvests were brought in in June and the fields have been left bare and compacted to bake in the sun since then.
Commercial orchards also leave the ground bare between trees to facilitate machine-speed harvests using

migrant labor. And the swathes of forest that have been burnt were victim to the end of pastoralism, no more herds keeping the forests clean as herd animals are concentrated in huge warehouses that use and pollute enormous quantities of water.

These bare fields and these burned forests will lose their soil, a problem that will be solved with other problems: chemical fertilizer, ocean dead zones, more industrial production and pollution.