Industrial Agriculture Lessons from North Korea I hope this is the article you are talking about.
Fantastic overview of agriculture in the DPRK and the huge shifts they have endured. The current trends and practices of the DPRK could be a useful insight for agricultural production that is less dependent on Fertiliser.
feeling a loss of hope for a lot of ideals I hold
Can you expand on this a little?
After finishing the book, it galvanised my hopes and vision of what the future could look like.
The book showed again and again and again, that implementing a “progressive” program while trying to look like a “moderate”, or following the “rules based order” was going to get you killed (especially if you are outside the Imperial core). A very important lesson.
Finding the correct landscape is not impossible, but it’s definitely not an easy thing to do. If you can deploy a gravity battery directly next to the industrial area of a city, you have a lot of advantages. Moreso if you can charge that gravity battery from a river flowing past the industrial area.
Edit: same could be said for deploying a chemical battery