Within the next decade, I believe that the small organic farmer will become everyone’s best friend. If you aren’t growing food, it is in your best interest to find someone that is and find a way to support them. While most people are still caught up trying to blame the left or right for all the world’s problems, I have been focused on building a network of people that are growing food. No amount of voting or protesting will fix the predicament that all of humanity is in now.
1% of corporate farms currently control 70% of the world’s farmland. This means that at least 70% of the farms on this planet use industrial methods to grow their crops and rely heavily on synthetic fertilizer for production. What this also means is that they are all vulnerable to a shortage of fossil fuels that are required to produce this fertilizer.
The U.S. recently dipped into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in September 2022 in order to ease the rising gas prices caused by crude oil shortages. There is now only 4 weeks of petroleum left in those reserves. What happens when those reserves run out? Only time will tell but it won’t be good.
I’m sure the government will implement some plan for free handouts of bugs and lab grown meat for those that do what they are told. I am not one of those people. There are some that don’t mind living in the middle of nowhere completely cutoff from civilization. I am also not one of those people.
I want to live in a world that is both connected and decentralized. I am not here to help people grow food. Rather, I am here to help connect people who are already growing food. But I don’t want to be a middleman. I want everyone to connect directly with each other, peer-to-peer. That is how a decentralized world works. To scale this up on a global scale, we need smart contracts. This is why blockchain is important, not monkey picture NFTs or the next pump of a meme coin.
"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world."
- Henry Kissinger
Normally, I wouldn't quote someone as despicable as Kissinger but there is much truth to this statement. The first step for humanity should be to take back its food supply. If no one controls the food supply, then no one controls the people.
Humanity's revolution begins with a decentralized food supply.