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How imminent is eco-system collapse & what would be the impact on the UK?
Well, the Secret Services have concluded its a lot nearer that we might think (could be only five years away) & the impact on national security (and crucially, food security) will be much worse that (again) you might think.
Critics have been warning of a potential crisis in the food system compounded by a collapse of local eco-systems - it seems now the spooks agree!
@ChrisMayLA6
Cough isn't the UK dependent on food imports anyway, so what exactly can the UK do by itself?
That’s what the report is about: ecosystems collapsing in places where we import food from, or simply constricting the global supply and putting up prices. If the cost of the food that we import doubles, how do we handle that? Preventing some of those ecosystems from collapsing is probably the cheapest option.
Not much I imagine... WE"RE FUCKED... Until we aren't.
@bobdobberson @yacc143 @ChrisMayLA6
A huge proportion of UK agricultural land is used for keeping beef cows and growing food for them + we import a lot of feed for them.
> a study that showed that this 85% of agricultural land which is used to produce meat and dairy provides only 32% of total calories and 48% of total protein.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmenvaud/312/report.html
Theres also a lot of other land that could be used for food production (e.g. for big examples see my last post + most land thats household gardens doesnt grow food)
Finally small farms produce more food per land area. Unfortunately farm sizes continue to grow (lots of farms are sold to larger farns) at the cost of the amount of food produced.
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