• 10:42 - 14:28
Ice Age Farmer / Christian Westbrook | Rockefeller Food, AgTech, & The Coming Food Supply Shortage
Lord Birkenhead, 1929 Predictions for Synthetic Food
Christian Westbrook references a 1929 Cosmopolitan article by Lord Birkenhead that predicted the future of agriculture in 2029. Birkenhead envisioned the end of traditional farming, replaced by lab-grown proteins and nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. The segment highlights how modern billionaires are currently funding startups that mirror these century-old predictions, including indoor vertical farming in cities.