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Could we lose delicious foods forever?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Crisis of Diversity Loss in Food Systems

i wrote a lot about the crisis of badiversity loss, and i'm just curious, like, do you see this as a sort of similar crisis of food loss? But for food, it's interconnected in so many ways. So that one relationship between endangered foods, uniformity of the modern food system and by diversity loss. There is also the environmental costs of that system as well. Huge amounts of water being used in this post green revolution food system. And huge amounts of fossil fuels being used in the production of synthetic fertilizers as well. Think about the impact that that has globaly when it comes to climate and other pressures on eco systems.

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