So much focus on the environmental impact of atmospheric carbon. I wonder if the bubble trouble that proceeded it was in fact nitrogen? When we worked out how to use massive energy to pull N out of the air, we no longer needed animal manure's as a source.
This allowed us to go all out into seed production and further "dis-integrate" animals from the food webs that created and sustained the rich soils we used to enjoy. It also enabled us to create a massive city-centric, humanity bubble.
Seeds are a storable, tradable, taxable, reliable, energy dense food source. The problems is that the concentrated glucose wrecks our livers, and the high omega six polyunsaturated fats they contain appear to wreck our arteries and nervous system. From there it appears to be a downwards spiral trying to use more plants and derived concentrates to "rebalance" our health.
Education is a media battle where science is often miss-used to create consumers rather than inform our decisions.
The frontline is probably our emotions, and that is tough terrain, currently dominated by well meaning, often vegetarian gurus.
Compassion and love are beautiful emotions, but our ancient food chains require death. When it comes to understanding our nature within the "greater nature"? I wonder if we have been following the wrong Indians? (or indeed the cowboys lol).
We can resist the limits of our ecology, and technology has allowed us to take this to extremes, but we are using more energy to extract fewer benefits? We have created mid-term convenient and predictability but has it come at the price of alienation and fragility?
I wonder if the Earth was at its most abundant when the world was teaming with herds of fat animals, rather than fragile sugar crops?
Has un-binding Nitrogen from the air allowed our species to ride sugar addiction into extinction or is this just a hiccup on our journey into a deeper understanding of who and what we are?