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How food is causing the apocalypse and how we can fix it with George Monbiot

The Happy Pear Podcast

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The Importance of Connecting to the Land

We have become totally dependent on food from a long way away. Many of the world cities just don't have a big enough hinterland to produce crops for all the people who live in those cities. The average minimum distance over which we Can be fed is over 2,000 kilometers. We're drawing in grain from the US Midwest from the Canadian prairies from the Brazilian interior and that leaves us vulnerable. But only if it's not environmentally disastrous.

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