The answer to your first point is going to be maths and the water cycle.
You proved the second point. We should do day trips to industrial agricultural properties to teach them.about the wonders of no till farming practices. I’m sure they’ll love it, even if it isn’t as profitable!
I’ll find you some ‘better sources’ tonight when I get home as it’s 7am here right now and I’m writing this while brushing my teeth.
I use rdx.overdevs.com to read reddit still as it has a lot more fashion, art and vegan content than here, but the only places I interact online in that way anymore are the Fediverse and Fragrantica, but the latter only really for perfume related stuff.