The news headline reads that the United States has created a new record for the amount of land that is needed to produce food. The news headline is right but the article is wrong. It’s not that the number has increased. It’s not that the number has increased because it’s a record. All it means is that the amount of land needed to produce food has increased.
So the number of acres per capita in the USA has risen by about 24,000 hectares or about 0.7% a year. That sounds like a pretty good year. But it really isn’t. Our country is actually growing less food per capita because of the way we’ve been farming for centuries. In the 1800s, we weren’t farmers. Farmers grew crops like potatoes and corn. We grew wheat. That’s how we got to grow so much wheat.
The problem is that when the land is used for farming, land is being used to grow crops. That means it is really easy to overproduce. We can farm for years and not be able to make enough food to feed our families. Thats why we’ve been having food riots in our cities.
In countries that are growing less food, the prices of food are going up. For example, I know in the US, there are many people that have been growing wheat in their front yards in order to make bread and flour. It is pretty much the same thing that happens in countries like India where people have been growing enough food to feed their families.
I’ve always been a little skeptical of the use of “overproduce”. It can mean a lot of different things depending on the context. To some people, overproduce means they’re producing more than they need, or they’re producing more food than they can eat. To others, overproduce means they’re using more resources than they need.
This has been a debate I have had for a long time, and I still think it’s a great idea. For example, if you are a person living on a small island and you have to rely on the land for every resource you need, then it’s great if you have a lot of food to buy. If the land is low on nutrients, you might consider selling it to others.
The other part is that in that moment, the people who are buying the food are also buying the resources. Think about it. What do you think would happen if the island was completely over-producing food? The result would be starvation. The same thing would happen if you were buying more than you needed from others. Think about a world where everyone is over-producing resources.
The solution is to be resourceful and to always be buying what we need. You can see this in action in our video “Takashi Tsutsumi” which shows how to make sushi even with a limited supply of ingredients.
I know we can all agree that the main reason we use the internet to gather people is to find out what’s happening inside of us. But if we all just gather together to share the internet and get to know each other, then it’s very easy to start to get to know ourselves.
We don’t have much time before we go out, we go to a movie or a play, and we get to watch movies, be a part of the community, and get to know each other from what we know, which is very important in the game.
