Hi All,

I work with large producers. I manage WHS for some Australian farms in Victoria. I am deeply concerned about:

Our capacity to feed 8.3 billion humans in 2027-2032

I fear we are headed to the 1945 world population of 2.5 billion

Synthetic fertiliser is made from LNG likely never in abundance again.

Please take a look, I am open to critique.

https://biofert.substack.com/p/we-cant-eat-data-license-cc0-10

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZE5brZTm1gPNbnWYyhzGdznR7vrkxiCCeX

https://drive.proton.me/urls/26TZVM0CNG#euwngbNYgKSu

  • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    That substack is hitting a lot of points, more than one human can reasonably address at once I think. Is this one of those LLM-fueled manic research spirals?

    You seem to know your stuff about fertilizer and australian agriculture, but this sort of sounds like you are predicting & feel responsible for the potential starving of billions of people. Besides being extremely speculative, that is not a sustainable psychological motivator. I would recommend slowing down and taking a breath until you can focus on a narrower issue.

    Also maybe lay off the chatbots for a bit (and replace Google with DuckDuckGo), but I reccommend that to everyone.

    • maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      cant believe ai psychosis has watched lemmy :( but yeaaa… it appears so.

      hello, I would like to solve the impending worldwide hunger.

      feels a bit too grandious…

      i believe that we have enough food, no? all that soy and stuff we are feeding to animals does exist i believe ~

      • AnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        We feed the animals wheat mainly here, and lots of land is cropspace for industry, monoculture canola/cotton, etc and lots of. I never said “, I would like to solve the impending worldwide hunger.” I think food (via biomass fertilizer) is a really good common ground to agitate for and organise around or even just pay a tiny bit of attention to really, there’s a lot more involved in making production scale produce then people think.

      • AnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Appreciate it! Yes it definitely grew beyond scope, I had to demonstrate a bit of why the war in Iran is different this time. Primarily the exit of US petrodollar backing to compute/data and how the war in Iran accomplishes lock in on consumer compute (helium) and preventing uptake of Gulf oil as hegemonic backing. Then how political actors are motivated to pursue this goal and the drivers behind the transition from unipolar hegemon to multi-polar regional bloc hegemons. (I also tried to remain accessible… eep)

        But yes I am certainly not a writer, I am using creative commons licensing so maybe a better writer than I can take inspiration and distill it for the attention economy.

        AI was used during research (but specifically not American compute.)
        I used Proton Lumo and Mistral Le Chat, they are not as good as the other AIs but I think are better custodians of my data.

        I have all appropriate sources however I only included the australian sourcing under heading: We Can’t Eat Data: Sourced Claims (May 2026) (it was long enough already!)

        I used a few books to get the Gulf history such as “Re-examining the Foundations of US-Gulf relations” David B. Roberts “The Evolution of Political Institutions and Dynasties in the Arab Gulf States” from Asian Journal of Academic Research etc etc

        and DuckDuckGo is cool but it’s still just Bing results. Give Searx a try (activate/disable desired search engines in config)

        Cheers, that pic is one of our farms and a pure magic view on foggy mornings!

        Appreciate you taking the time, cheers fam!