Kevin Espiritu

So we're losing it dramatically faster than it's being regenerated.

Why?

Because the way that we farm in industrial agriculture is we're effectively, it's almost like you're growing hydroponically in the soil because you've now, let's say you've stripped all the topsoil, just hypothetically, right?

Well, now you're growing in effectively dirt.

There's not a lot of life in it.

There's not a lot of nutrient content in it anymore.

So what do you do?

big, huge machines come in and till in the synthetic nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium that you need.

So you're basically saying the dirt's now the growing medium, and I'm taking these synthetics that I've maybe mined from some cave somewhere and transported with fossil fuels, right?

Yeah.

And so we're sort of like taxing the earth and not repaying it enough.

And there will be a point at which there's like, you've crossed the sort of horizon of being able to do that.

And then you may actually see yields fall off like crazy because we're just losing it way too fast.

Well, we'll riff off of it, Chuck.

I've got one for you.

So California grows a ton of almonds, right?

We grow most of the almonds in the country.

So the way to do it efficiently in the industrial, you know, Neal method, I'm going to call it for now.

Yeah, I know, I know.

Go ahead, go ahead.