Wow, this was truly enlightening. I’ve had a novel brewing in me for some time about a dystopian future and food supply challenges, and your newsletter has given me real substance to build on. Regardless, the work you’re doing here is so important — raising awareness and offering perspectives that really matter. Thank you.
Great article, Mike! I particularly liked how you made the point about access to....technology, investment, markets and not just food itself for those facing food insecurity. Channeling Malthus is a great way to show us, as you say, the paradoxes but also lessons we can learn from him. What he didn't envision is the necessary role of grass-roots organizations and local/municipal policy in facilitating access - in every way you describe it.
Wow, this was truly enlightening. I’ve had a novel brewing in me for some time about a dystopian future and food supply challenges, and your newsletter has given me real substance to build on. Regardless, the work you’re doing here is so important — raising awareness and offering perspectives that really matter. Thank you.
Great article, Mike! I particularly liked how you made the point about access to....technology, investment, markets and not just food itself for those facing food insecurity. Channeling Malthus is a great way to show us, as you say, the paradoxes but also lessons we can learn from him. What he didn't envision is the necessary role of grass-roots organizations and local/municipal policy in facilitating access - in every way you describe it.
These are critical points. I write about CRISPR technology's affect on the food system rapidly accelerating plant selection and needs for oversight to balance needs of the commercial ecosystem with the promise of potential use to further nutritional stability, food security, and biodiversity and lower food costs. https://open.substack.com/pub/eatingandfeeding/p/can-crispr-rescue-the-tasteless-supermarket?r=355mg5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web. Reach out if you are interested in some cross-fertilization of readers