The Great Simplification of Agriculture

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Food will be re-engineered where a lot of our fertilizers will be developed organically or partially organically locally. Water is one of those things that people don't really think is a problem. But access to clean drinking water is already a problem for many, many parts of the world. And if we don't have proper drinking water, we start having disease rippling through our society which will cripple us. We might move into a society where water will have to be filtered through charcoal and rock and gravel.

On this episode, mining and geology expert Simon Michaux returns to give a preliminary framework for responses to the coming energy and material constraints described in the previous episode. This includes both practical thoughts for how to organize communities around resources and also a shift in mindset from short term to long-term and from competition to cooperation. How do we simultaneously lay out all of the biophysical constraints on the table so that we can begin preparing for and adapting to a changing future?

About Simon Michaux

Dr. Simon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. He has a PhD in mining engineering. Dr. Michaux’s long-term work is on societal transformation toward a circular economy.

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