Grunwald: Less Intensive Farming Requires More Land and Harms Biodiversity
Mike Grunwald · The climate-ag grab bag · Jan 23, 2025 · at 19:03
Journalist and author Mike Grunwald discusses the climate and ecological trade-offs of regenerative and organic agriculture with host Shayle Kann.
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“First of all, to the extent that regenerative or organic or basically more natural Kinder and gentler forms of agriculture make less food per acre. They're gonna need more acres to make food. You know, land agriculture that is less intensive needs to be more extensive, and that's a disaster for biodiversity, right? That's coming straight out of the, you know, the peatlands and the forests that are, you know, storing biodiversity and storing carbon.”
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