Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.

Summary

Grocery prices are expected to rise globally as soil degradation, driven by overfarming, deforestation, and climate change, reduces farmland productivity.

The UN estimates 33% of the world’s soils are degraded, with 90% at risk by 2050. Poor soil forces farmers to use costly fertilizers or abandon fields, raising prices for staples like bread, vegetables, and meat.

Experts advocate for sustainable practices like regenerative agriculture, cover cropping, and reduced tillage to restore soil health.

Innovations and government subsidies could mitigate impacts, but immediate action is critical to ensure food security.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    4 days ago

    tell me about it, dude.

    We’re on the precipice of total collapse. Farmlands failing, Ocean Currents are collapsing, Climate change is accelerating, Intellectuals are being demonized in favor of ignorance and fascism… The possibility of WW3 hanging over us thanks to all of the previous.

    the next 20 years are going to be the cursed time that “may you live in interesting times” was talking about.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      How nice of you to conveniently list out all the current events worth having an existential crisis over, in a reply to a person having an existential crisis

      • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        They didn’t list them all, the climate change one is more nuanced than that: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/23/earth-breach-planetary-boundaries-health-check-oceans

        Yes there are 9 planetary boundaries for us to be able to live here, and we’ve crossed 7 of them.

        People SHOULD be having existential crises. Wtf are existential crises for if not SPECIES ENDING EVENTS? That’s why we evolved to freak tf out over this, to help us care enough to address it. That you all would rather numb yourself to it is a testament to how shitty of a species humans truly are. Our ONE fucking advantage is not intelligence, but adaptability. Go on, adapt. Get this shit figured out.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Dawg they are having an existential crisis. A bunch of us are, because just about every thread on the big communities on here remind us of how shit things are every day. I wouldn’t rather be numb to it, and I’m not suggesting other people to be numb to it. I’m saying it’s funny that someone wrote a comment about how much this site reminds them of all the shit going on, then someone replies directly to them with a list of more shit.

          Please don’t get yourself into the mindset that because everything is shit, we all have to feel like shit all the time too.