Tickets available for Session 3 of The Story of Industrial Civilization

by Jason Crawford · May 25, 2021 · 1 min read

Tickets are now available for session 3 of my salon series with Interintellect, “The Story of Industrial Civilization”.

Topic: Agriculture

Before the Industrial Revolution, about half the workforce had to be farmers, just to feed the population. Even when times were good, diets were not varied and food was often not fresh. When times were hard, people went hungry and faced the threat of famine. Today, farm labor is more than 1,000 times more productive, representing only a few percent of the workforce—and we enjoy a secure, abundant supply of fresh food from all over the world. How did this happen? We’ll explore how we solved the challenge of soil fertility, mechanized the manual labor of farming, bred better varieties of crops and livestock, and learned to preserve food throughout the supply chain.

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