The Cancer of Modern Agricolture

in #nature7 years ago

With this post I want to point out the fact that we've been raping our soil for two thousand years now, thanks to the so called "advancement" in modern agricolture.

I don't think that nature is supposed to operate this way, I'm open to discussion of course, but I think there's something profoundly wrong with how we interact with the natural world, it's like seeing everything disposable and ready for us to be exploited.

I don't see much difference between modern agricolture and intensive farming where animals never see the sunlight and they barely have space to move cause they're fully packed into a building with artificial lights, fed with shit and antibiotics...
Hey just like you when you get into McDonald's!

A thousand years ago, the plough was acclaimed as a great innovation, the problem is that by ploughing a field you're basically destroying all the fungi, all the earthworms and all the communication plants established with each other.

That's what you're doing, you're turning the whole field into a pile of dust, into a desert...
It won't be able to withstand the first rainfall, it will be washed away.
This is what's happening in Europe for a long time now, and the situation in the rest of the world is far from being better. Our soil is becoming so fucked up and depleted that the only way to make it productive would be using fertilizers and all the shit that comes from Monsanto.

The soil is not suited for mass production and intensive agricolture, the only way to keep it "productive" is through permaculture, respecting nature's rhythms and biodiversity, cooperating with her, instead of working against, that's really not a great idea in the long run...
We're already facing the consequences of a depleted soil, and that's not gonna get better if we don't change things, starting from our little garden.

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Well said. I wholeheartedly agree. The way forward is to return to our roots, literally and figuratively and live in peace with mother nature.

Thanks bro, that's what I'm trying to do, and honestly as a specie we don't really have other options

Truth hurts and us humans don't like to accept we are destroying this planet like a cancer...

Did you see one of the lasts postes that benlee shared? he was interviewing someone who is actually fighting for a sustainable solution.

Grazie fratello, la verità dà fastidio, I'm gonna check that out

Could not agree more I think permaculture is the answer.

It is man, thank you so much for taking the time to read