"Our own species' relatively narrow food requirements are what we're usually most concerned about, and the solution to meeting our needs is not complicated. To provide food for all, rather than having billions among us go hungry, we need more efficient food production and better foods and/or fewer people: Impossible Burgers rather than Wagyu beef. Backyard tomatoes rather than mass agriculture that's produced far away and flown, then driven, vast distances to our dinner tables, etc."
"I WORK TO GET the bulk of my protein from wild game - a deer, an elk, a couple of ducks and pheasants, some grouse - but that's because I'm incredibly fortunate to live in the heart of the 2.2 million-acre Kootenai National Forest in northwest Montana, in an unincorporated community composed of a few homesteads and "town"- two bars and a mercantile."
Earth holds finite material, moisture, and daily solar energy, and all organic matter ultimately becomes food for something else. Human dietary narrowness means meeting global needs requires more efficient production, improved foods, or fewer people. Plant-based alternatives and localized growing reduce transport and resource strain. Scaling solutions demands both policy reform and cultural change, and small actions also play a role. Declining food and water supplies create an opportunity to recalibrate relationships with nature. The narrator sources most protein from wild game while living in the Kootenai National Forest's Yaak region, in a small off-grid community. The Yaak remains sheltered by diverse microsites that help preserve stream temperatures. The narrator lives off the grid and heats partly with firewood.
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