In an interview with Arabian Business, Sadhguru praised the UAE for making food and agriculture a top priority at COP28, noting “at last, we’ve realised we need to eat.” However, he stressed that more needs to be done, warning that “we are on the verge of desertification. People should just look at Google Maps from 2004 to now, if you look at it there is more than 12-15 percent extra brown patches. The desert is expanding.”
According to Sadhguru, the key issue is that the world has approximately only 40-50 years of agricultural soil left, yet “we are going on as if there is no tomorrow.” He explained that when crops are harvested “we putting back almost nothing.” As a result, even rich soils can only support farming for “25 to 40 or maybe 50 years at the most.”
Sadhguru highlighted that “not a single nation on the planet has the minimum average of 3 percent organic matter,” with the highest levels currently found in some parts of Western Europe at just 2.4 percent. Below 1 percent organic matter is considered desertification, yet the average levels in India and Africa are only 0.62 percent and 0.3 percent respectively. “We are on the verge of desertification. This is because we’re actively turning land into desert,” he warned.
Unless urgent action is taken, Sadhguru painted a grim picture of potential “civilisational collapse.”
Watch the full interview above.
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