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> One guess as to what caused the collapse in agricultural employment. Cheap oil and the rise of mechanized agriculture that it has allowed. Petroleum products
by whyenot 3y ago
> One guess as to what caused the collapse in agricultural employment.
Cheap oil and the rise of mechanized agriculture that it has allowed. Petroleum products have made human lives immensely better over the last century or so. ...but there are also costs such as climate change and microplastic pollution. How great these costs may be and how they may impact us, that we are only beginning to understand.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoOil was already around, it was technology that both allowed for the extraction and use of it, and more generally for the development of farm machinery.