Meanwhile, the UK is one of the worlds worst affected environments - which doesn't bode well for anything, really, let alone agriculture.
Given the lag in systems response to input stimuli, we probably passed the point at which anything could be done a looooooooonnng time ago. So any initiatives will only be mechanisms for the cynical to fleece the poor. (So no real change there).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47203344
What issues are being under-played?
Topsoil is being lost 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished by natural processes
Since the mid-20th Century, 30% of the world's arable land has become unproductive due to erosion
95% of the Earth's land areas could become degraded by 2050
These matters are close to home for British politicians, the authors argue, with the average population sizes of the most threatened species in the UK having decreased by two-thirds since 1970.
The UK is described as one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.
Some 2.2 million tonnes of UK topsoil is eroded annually, and over 17% of arable land shows signs of erosion.
Nearly 85% of fertile peat topsoil in East Anglia has been lost since 1850, with the remainder at risk of being lost over next 30–60 years.
The IPPR says many scientists believe we have entered a new era of rapid environmental change.
The report warns: "We define this as the 'age of environmental breakdown' to better highlight the severity of the scale, pace and implications of environmental destabilisation resulting from aggregate human activity."