How to feed the world without destroying it
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.7 | Today, writer George Monbio |
| 0:10.8 | on the solution to a global food crisis, |
| 0:13.7 | a marvelous substance that we've been treating like dirt. |
| 0:17.1 | The trend first appeared about seven years ago, |
| 0:23.5 | noticed by people who study the world's food supply, |
| 0:27.1 | like the writer George Monbio. |
| 0:29.1 | Humanity has never produced as much food as it does today, |
| 0:33.1 | and yet over the past few years, |
| 0:35.1 | the new world has been able to develop |
| 0:37.1 | the new world's food crisis. |
| 0:39.1 | The trend first appeared about seven years ago, |
| 0:41.1 | noticed by people who study the world's food supply, |
| 0:43.1 | like the writer George Monbio. |
| 0:45.1 | Over the past few years, the number of people going hungry is going up. |
| 0:51.1 | World hunger started ticking up in 2015 after a very long decline, |
| 0:56.3 | and it's been rising ever since, |
| 0:58.3 | and yet it started rising just as world food prices started falling. |
| 1:03.9 | So something weird and systemic is going on. |
| 1:09.5 | People who study complex systems, like economies, the climate, |
| 1:13.9 | or the world's food system, |
| 1:15.6 | say that before they collapse, |
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