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How Tech is Remaking the Food System w/ Jim Thomas

Tech Won't Save Us

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Ag 4.0 - Is There Any Evidence That It Will Improve Farming?

The big claims for precision agriculture are that there will be less pesticides. But in fact, when you sort of look at what the companies are saying more privately, they're saying overall, they can still sell as much pesticides. It's just that it's used more specifically in the right place on the farm. Soil science is now beginning to say that these kind of industrial ways of trying to use the carbon market,. and this is a massive amount of energy because all of this is data and data is energy. And I can talk more about that.

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