Grocery prices set to rise as soil becomes “unproductive”

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1. Don’t worry. Trump will fix it. 🙄

2. Who would’ve guessed

3. The great ravine beckons.

4. Gotta lay off the Brawndo!

5. This is a reason why banning gmos will be so potentially devastating.

6. Electrolytes!

7. Uh huh, sure Newsweek. Of course it’s not corporate greed that’s making things more expensive, it’s that darn *unproductive soil*. Right.

8. It’s almost as if the planet isn’t designed to sustain unlimited growth.

9. Fucking lazy dirt

10. Not even soil wants to work anymore

11. So we are living in the Interstellar timeline now. I literally had a guy I work with say that movie was global warming propaganda.

12. The climate deniers’ chickens coming home to roost. And I reckon this is also why we have had so much immigration through Latin America these last few years

13. Doesn’t help when one of the world top 5 wheat producers invades another top 5 producing country. And food inputs as part of sanctions or trade wars across the globe.

14. Maybe plowing, growing one fucking crop, and blasting the soil with fertilizers and pesticides over and over again is not a great idea.

15. Seeing as there is two to three times as much food in stores as actually required, there’s no need for rising costs.

16. That’s a weird way of saying potential famine lol

17. Has anyone told the dirt to pull itself up by it’s boot straps yet?

18. It’s alright guys trump is gonna make the prices lower don’t worry he said so. Maga

19. Way to go, Biden. /s

20. Another reminder to eat as vegetarian and vegan as you can. Most of our crops go toward feeding animals. If we didn’t eat as many animals we wouldn’t need to farm as much. Obviously this is incredibly simplistic of a complex issue, but the truth still holds that we could reduce impact by reducing eating animal food products.

21. Wow. Just like in Interstellar movie.

22. And they’ll somehow blame Biden for this

23. Only took a hundred years to forget the dust bowl

24. Who would have thought that destroying the soil biome and climate change would lead to this? Dow and Big Oil have no comments.

25. Yup keep tilling that soil till there’s nothing left.

26. The Midwest has the some of the best soil in the world and we’re killing it with pesticides, massive amounts of salt based fertilizers and paving
    Over it with so we can build more outlet malls and cheaply built subdivisions. Not to mention all the pollution and micro plastics covering the entire planet.

27. If we all become suddenly unproductive, we will probably win

28. Crop failure by 2030

29. Sweet. Tariff Great Depression and Dust Bowl 2.0 incoming.

30. Aka drought

31. This is what the CEO’s of grocery corporations want you to think. Meanwhile they are pulling in record profits.

32. From my youth I seem to remember my mom and grandfather (who was a farmer) talking about having to rotate fields so that this issue was avoided. But I guess with all the use of pesticides and other chemicals and probably lack of usable land to rotate to this could become an issue. I have to wonder how much of it is just “Trust me bro pseudoscience” to drive up prices with less push back however. Because we know there are ways to fix these issues they just don’t feel it’s “Cost Effective” to do it.

33. I always hate winters in the Midwest, but this is why I feel safer living here. We have the most fertile soil in the world and the Great Lakes have the largest store of freshwater right in my back yard. No hurricanes. No earthquakes. The only thing we have is tornados.

34. Soil get your act together we need rising productivity.

35. We purposefully rebuild soil much faster than people previously thought using regenerative agriculture. We could literally restore land through a combination of rewilding and regenerative practices. People are doing it all over the world.

    Like all our problems, we have the tools to fix them, but we have to start accepting that change will be necessary to fix what we’ve broken.

36. Yeahhhhh baby let’s keep growing corn to inefficiently convert it into biofuel for basically no reason but agriculture lobbying

37. Just needs some Brawndo. It has electrolytes, and plants crave them.

38. We literally have the ability to turn barren soil into productive soil. Sure it might not be cheap but it’s there. But that right there is the reason a lot of stuff doesn’t get done, it’s not cheap and cutting corners.

39. Trump will make the Perfect Phone Call and fix it!! Tariff the soil!! Amen ❤️🇺🇸🙏

40. It’s almost like monocropping is a bad thing…if only we had a cycle that would restore nutrients into the soil…maybe some sort of…rotation?

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