politics

All progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the labourer, but of robbing the soil; all progress in increasing the fertility of the soil for a given time, is a progress towards ruining the lasting sources of that fertility. The more a country starts its development on the foundation of modern industry, like the United States, for example, the more rapid is this process of destruction. Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.

What emerged was a long-term structural dynamic: modern agriculture became inseparable from fossil fuel energy, and thus exposed by its disruption.

i mean, yeah, over half of all humans alive are fed by the haber bosch process and there's a lot of conclusions to be drawn from that