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this is chapter and verse rationalization -- since the Green Revolution of fertilizer inputs, food shortage is not really a thing for the parts of the world I k
by mistrial9 3y ago
this is chapter and verse rationalization -- since the Green Revolution of fertilizer inputs, food shortage is not really a thing for the parts of the world I know about. What is also a thing is highly processed food with colorful packaging, and specialty foods with more commercial profits, and aggregation by Big Agriculture.
Do you really live in Ethiopia or South-central India? or there are other (unstated) motivations
- patrickhogan1 3y agoYour example of being food secure during your lifetime, a very pro-human thing, shows how investment in fertilizer is net good. However, this article equates fertilizer to being nature-negative. The government in Sri Lanka, using ideology similar to that used in this article, switched to a different farming system, which has devastated their food security. [1] [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi...
- mistrial9 3y agowait - you are patrick hogan WW (!) back to listening mode here
- user_7832 3y ago> Do you really live in Ethiopia or South-central India? or there are other (unstated) motivations I'm curious, what's going on in these areas?
- mistrial9 3y agothis page seems useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger