We have already examined some of these issues in previous chapters, again highlighting how issues of sustainability are all encompassing and cannot be compartmentalised

• fossil fuel depletion

• corporate control of genetic diversity, seeds and natural resources

• displacement of indigenous people

• soil degradation

• water scarcity

• increasing population

• increasing urbanisation

• intensive livestock farming

• competition for land and resources

• super farms and monoculture

• poor planning of urban areas

• just-in-time distribution

• supermarket domination

• geopolitics and war.

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