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.

Thank you, I will try to write an executive summary. the gist of it is, tough times coming.

Synthetic fertiliser shortage never ending, lower crop output per input, massive population growth from 2.5 billion to 8.5 billion in ~80 years thanks to synthetic fertilizer and industrialisation. So without synthetic fert, without diesel (farming is very diesel heavy) cheap labour and with a huge global debt making capital investment tightly aligned with cost/benefit then we likely can’t produce and transport food for all the people who now live 100’s kilometers from it’s production. I’m not hard claiming 3 billion but i feel it’s a fair assessment weighing agricultural innovations over the last 80 years against the probable the loss of abundant fert/oil/labour/water/pollinators/biosecurity programs

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!

Hey, thanks for taking the time, there is a big collection of sources in the article. What is changing is the global energy economy fracture after the war in Iran and the current agricorp sole focus on yield and cost per tonnage making regenerative farming ‘unviable’ plus loss of institutional knowledge and an uninvested workforce.

Our farms are literally unable to practice sustainable farming and remain solvent, we don’t collect seeds and can’t rotate crops. Without investment in biomass fertilizer programs over the next 12-24 months, I suspect the agricorp cost benefit analysis flips and sells off farms and farmland at pennies on the dime to cut losses and maintain quarterly profits. My source on that is, we are up for sale right now, but might be liquidated into the assets like water rights and land value rather then sold wholesale.

Yes, outdoor work and phones are expensive.

Education is only useful if it serves the needs of production.