11 Feeding the World in Style

04/09/20 • 39 min

Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities

How a human-scale food system can feed 10 billion people on 97% less land than we use now, with higher quality and social justice than the world has ever known.
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Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - 11 Feeding the World in Style

Transcript

Kev: 0:00
Could you grow all the food you need to survive? Do you know how much space you would need? How much material and equipment would you need? What would it cost? How much time would it take?
Kev: 0:15
As a former market gardener, let me set the record straight: subsistence farming is hard. It takes a long time to learn, and it takes skill and capital. Worse, as any economist will tell you, doing it all yourself is a ticket to poverty, renounc