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Yes but... Some of the famines in the 1940s werent natural famines, they were due to war and colonizing forces, see: https://nitter.net/i/status/1210635179221
by seltzered_ 3y ago
Yes but...
Some of the famines in the 1940s werent natural famines, they were due to war and colonizing forces, see:
https://nitter.net/i/status/1210635179221348352 https://nitter.net/i/status/1210635179221348352 (linking to Winston Churchill associates with Indian famine deaths: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-famine-intl-scli-gbr/index.html?__twitter_impression=true https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-fam... )
The other part of our predicament is that excess nitrogen impacts water supplies (see http://e360.yale.edu/features/the-nitrogen-problem-why-global-warming-is-making-it-worse http://e360.yale.edu/features/the-nitrogen-problem-why-globa... ) and creates ocean dead zones ( see https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone.html , https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/happenowdeadzone/ https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/happenowdeadzone/ )
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI think the point was without artificial fertilizer there would be famine everywhere all the time. But it is absolutely true that while necessary a nitrogen source fertilizer isn’t sufficient to produce food.