2030 – Primal Group

The Vastness of 21st Century Agriculture is Falling Short

Our global food industry sustains more people, with increased efficiency and a lower cost than any other period in human history. The problem is that big food continues to have an astounding influence on global health and the environment.

Through agricultural innovation and industrialization, the majority of the global food supply has now found itself under control of a select few major corporations around the world. The increase in efficiency is nothing short of impressive. The fact that California-based Earthbound Farm can harvest 10,000 pounds of lettuce per hour using a crew of only 12 people is simply astounding, especially considering that not so long ago this same production capacity would have taken a 40-person team the entire day.…

Living on Resources Taken from Future Generations

With the European debt crisis, the United Kingdom leaving the European Union and China’s continued economic slowdown compounding fears of a global financial system teetering on the edge, there is no doubt that we are living in an age of social and economic uncertainty. One of our few certainties is mankind’s increasing rate of consumption. There are only so many natural resources the earth can supply and on 8th August 2016 we breached our annual limit.

Earth Overshoot Day, also known as Ecological Debt Day, is when the human demand for natural resources exceeds what the planet can replenish annually. is the day when resource use outstrips our capacity for production, and is the point in the year when we have used as much land, trees and food that the planet’s ecosystem can regenerate.…