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The world produces so much excess food we pay farmers not to grow it and fast fashion brands burn unsold merchandise in the desert.

• anovikov 2mo ago
  ...and the food part, it's been this way for almost a hundred years now - with agricultural productivity skyrocketing in between. But 100 years ago, chronic food overproduction bankrupting farmers, was already a persistent problem. Since then, lots of bright minds spent their lifetimes to invent new ways to bribe or coerce farmers into growing as little as possible for their own safety.