Urbanization, Labor shortage, and Food Security - Finding the equilibrium is necessary.
Massive urbanization is killing us.
This statement seems harsh and generalized but the truth lies in it!
Everyone is rushing to have the same lifestyle, social media is playing a huge role in it. Not many want to be in the rural sights anymore. Not many youths are willing to spend time on farms, doing agricultural work. I would say, it's our fault that we proclaimed those jobs as 'odd' and not 'fine' years after year. And now we are seeing food insecurity and low farm production after many years.
You see, this is not very hard to see the connection between all these things. The unfortunate thing is, we are so very focused on making money, and keeping an urbanized lifestyle that we forgot what matters more.
It's plain and simple to understand that if we fail to involve more people in agriculture and farm work, we will get to see a huge output fall in the next couple of years and so. If we continue playing this lifestyle and proclaim these same thoughts for generations then there's a high chance that we will face a food supply shortage in just a few years from now.
This sounds ridiculous and reminds me of a quote, "we can't eat money."
We certainly need to find other ways.
Now if I talk about this from my own standing point, then I must approve that the way I was brought up with no vocational and farm learning made it almost impossible to survive without a corporate job. The education system as well as social demand made us study to serve the corporate world, nothing else. So even if I wish to go back, and start doing something offgrid; it's almost impossible.
And this is the story of millions.
The way grocery prices are searching if the government doesn't take action to give support and subsidy to the agriculture sector; it will be out of our reach. It's a matter of time before the economy will fall. Because guess what? We will not survive without bearing a minimum, that's the reality.
The situation is alarming. It's high time to think about where we are heading.
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