Regenerative farming practices restore ecosystems, pollinators, and soil organic matter while supporting biodiversity. These farms put in $21 million of benefit to the environment, which counteract the $125 trillion natural capital loss occurring each year from conventional farming practices.
Dan Barber describes regenerative farming as an approach where farmers increase soil fertility through their farming by feeding the soil with carbon. However, scaling regenerative farming can be challenging due to the amount of manpower required to pay attention.
The concept of mining operations and colonization in space raises questions about ownership and wealth, and whether industry created in space should accrue back to the rest of society. There are also concerns about repeating the same issues that colonization brought on Earth.
As less industrialized countries seek to preserve their natural resources and biodiversity, they look to more industrialized countries for subsidies. However, some wealthy countries refuse to extend the same deals, despite past exploitation of less developed nations.
The use of artificial intelligence in data collection and decision-making could help supplement and work with regenerative farming methods to improve performance on the land.
Author Alex Epstein makes the case that fossil fuels have been incredibly beneficial and that the moral case for them has been ignored, particularly in the West.