Eco pioneer Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein and the question of existence

by time news

Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein does not look like the apocalyptic rider on his fiery red steed, even if his ancestors may have ridden in full armor time and again during the thousand-year family history. With his lean, tall figure, the prince is more reminiscent of a German Don Quixote, who, however, does not fight against windmills, but to save humanity: “The situation is dramatic because we are destroying our livelihoods and our future with industrial agriculture. We have to react immediately, because day after day we take another step in the wrong direction, and every day the return to the saving path becomes more difficult, ”says Löwenstein with all the passion of a worried revolutionary, who of course always despite all verve the high aristocratic composure preserved.

The scientific evidence is overwhelming, there has long been no doubt that the agricultural industry is highly productive, but also extremely unstable. Without chemistry it would collapse overnight, it would be chemistry alone that keeps a bad system alive. It is far too late for Löwenstein to change arable farming and cattle breeding in triple steps. The whole of agriculture, not just a small, albeit growing part of it, must be infiltrated and permeated by the ideas of ecology; organic food must find its way from niche to mass product as quickly as possible. “If we switch to organic farming at the same speed as we are now, we will have reached our goal by the end of the century. But then the earth will be a desert. ”That is not a nice idea for a man who has six daughters and does not enjoy the apocalypse.

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