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>there's plenty of pristine, hardly used, soil around. Gonna need a [citation needed] on that one.
by Juggerbot 9y ago
>there's plenty of pristine, hardly used, soil around.
Gonna need a [citation needed] on that one.
- sfotm 9y agoDrive through the flyover states and you can see it all for yourself. If you're not on the interstate, you can drive at 80mph without seeing another car for some time. It's actually really beautiful how untouched some parts of the US are. Hopefully they can stay that way for some time.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe Midwest may have a low density of cars, but the arable land is largely farmed; it isn't pristine, untouched wilderness.
- sfotm 9y agoI was born on a farm in rural Ohio, so I can appreciate the difference. I'm thinking more of Wyoming.
- scott_s 9y agoBut that land is probably not suitable for farming - because if it was, someone would probably have a farm on it. So then you're comparing soil-not-great-for-farming from then and now, which is something, but it's not what we really care about (soil-used-for-farming).
- ars 9y agoFind an old growth forest and dig a little. Or the side of a mountain/valley where it's hard to farm, but plants grow just fine.