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Farming Needs to Suck Less

Michael Grunwald · 30 Aug 2023

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  1. Our reading

    Synthetic fertiliser is a serious climate and pollution problem and also the reason half the people alive are alive.

    Mental modelTrade-offs

    Their wordsThey suck! But they also feed the world. Half the people alive today would be very not alive if fertilizers manufactured from natural gas weren’t super-sizing our harvests.

  2. Our reading

    Fixing food and climate needs solutions that scale absurdly fast, and the ones we have do not scale nearly fast enough yet.

    Their wordsthe solutions to our food and climate problems need to scale up absurdly quickly.

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