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by JudgePenitent 1834 days ago
This problem will not go away unless we change our food production methods.

This is a global challenge. While it might centralize in specific regions, food production destabilization in one region affects others obviously.

Today, we have technology that can replace soil based farming. Aero/hydro farming is already here; I purchased strawberries from my local grocery store just the other day, and they tasted great.[1] There are other, far larger B-corp certified solutions such as [2]. The economics of it still has to be figured out in some cases, yet if we invested and developed in this technology it would be far healthier for our environment in general, I believe.

1: https://www.plan-berries.com/ 2: https://www.aerofarms.com/farms/