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Read this korrent: A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.
A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 May 2023
GM
George Monbiot — holds since 2023-05-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The central problem of the food system is producing much more food on much less land. — tap to centre the map on it
The central problem of the food system is producing much more food on much less land.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Jul 2023
MG
Michael Grunwald — holds since 2023-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: It is false that the world needs no more food and only better distribution of the food it has. — tap to centre the map on it
It is false that the world needs no more food and only better distribution of the food it has.
Last stated a year ago
13 Jul 2025
MG
Michael Grunwald — holds since 2025-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land. — tap to centre the map on it
Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land.
Last stated 3 years ago
4 Oct 2023
GM
George Monbiot — holds since 2023-10-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes. — tap to centre the map on it
The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes.
Last stated 3 years ago
13 Mar 2024
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Linus Blomqvist — holds since 2024-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world. — tap to centre the map on it
Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world.
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Dec 2024
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Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2024-12-05 — tap for who they are
MG
Michael Grunwald — holds since 2023-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A future of constrained energy will need more people working the land, and that is not the same as going back to the past. — tap to centre the map on it
A future of constrained energy will need more people working the land, and that is not the same as going back to the past.
Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
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Chris Smaje — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The answer to feeding the world is better factories, not more fields. — tap to centre the map on it
The answer to feeding the world is better factories, not more fields.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 May 2023
GM
George Monbiot — holds since 2023-05-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A market economy rewards putting land under campsites and horse liveries rather than under food, and that is the wrong thing to reward. — tap to centre the map on it
A market economy rewards putting land under campsites and horse liveries rather than under food, and that is the wrong thing to reward.
Last stated 3 years ago
9 Dec 2023
CS
Chris Smaje — holds since 2023-12-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away. — tap to centre the map on it
A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Dec 2024
AF
Adam Frank — holds since 2024-12-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A regional climate extreme set during an ecological disaster is not evidence that the whole country or planet was hotter — tap to centre the map on it
A regional climate extreme set during an ecological disaster is not evidence that the whole country or planet was hotter
Last stated 3 months ago
22 Jul 2026
ZH
Zeke Hausfather — holds since 2026-07-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A warming climate and retreating glaciers are raising the risk of Himalayan ice-and-rock collapses regardless of whether any single event can be attributed to it. — tap to centre the map on it
A warming climate and retreating glaciers are raising the risk of Himalayan ice-and-rock collapses regardless of whether any single event can be attributed to it.
Last stated 2 months ago
28 Aug 2026
ZH
Zeke Hausfather — holds since 2026-08-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending. — tap to centre the map on it
Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending.
Last stated 3 years ago
28 Nov 2023
SA
Scott Alexander — holds since 2023-11-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age — tap to centre the map on it
Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age
Last stated 17 years ago
27 Oct 2009
NP
Natalie Portman — holds since 2009-10-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Farm animal welfare tends to improve when an animal's stress directly and measurably reduces farmers' economic productivity. — tap to centre the map on it
Farm animal welfare tends to improve when an animal's stress directly and measurably reduces farmers' economic productivity.
Last stated 6 months ago
1 May 2026
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Elizabeth Van Nostrand — holds since 2026-05-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death. — tap to centre the map on it
A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death.
Last stated 6 years ago
4 Jun 2020
AP
Ada Palmer — holds since 2020-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change. — tap to centre the map on it
A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change.
Last stated 2 months ago
20 Aug 2026
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Lyman Stone — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A religion cannot revive itself by encouraging its members to have more children. — tap to centre the map on it
A religion cannot revive itself by encouraging its members to have more children.
Last stated 2 months ago
24 Aug 2026
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Ryan Burge — holds since 2026-08-24 — tap for who they are
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