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Salt-tolerant crops ‘revolutionise’ life for struggling Bangladeshi farmers
- aaron695 5y agoThis increase is from groundwater extraction which raises the salt levels and subsides the land. Plus other effects like dams changing flows. It's been a issue since before the 70's. It's a good example of how amazing the world is getting, the internet allows salt resistant plants be developed and deployed where they are needed and the results fed back. A lot of this is not new, just the networking bit and it makes a big difference.
- baybal2 5y agoaaron695 , i think you are being shadowbanned
- gus_massa 5y agoIt's nice that more crops are available, because salinisation is a real problem. It's not clear if it's a new problem in the area, or that are used to haves less people there. Anyway, this claim is weird > By 2050, [...]. The sea level is projected to rise by 50cm over the same period, leading to a loss of about 11% of Bangladesh’s land. But there is a recent article in Nature that has a much lower prediction https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z > Central estimates in the recent literature broadly agree that global mean sea level is likely to rise 20–30 cm by 20503.
- khaki54 5y agoAh great we can finally start using Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator on crops.