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Consider reading the article, which is about more than covering land area.

• pfdietz 3y ago
  > We're talking about a meaningful fraction of the Earth's surface, said the previous poster in this thread I was responding to. And why am I not allowed to rebut individual points?
  • stonogo 3y ago
    You didn't rebut points, you invented some kind of additional claim to rebut. This plastic exists in many forms and farmland does indeed take up a ton of real estate. Why are you concluding that this is only a problem if someone is covering every square inch? The point made in the article is that this stuff can shred and get scattered all over the cropland even if nobody is deliberately saran-wrapping the entire farm. I am not telling you what you're allowed or not allowed to do; I am encouraging you to engage with nuance. I apologize for the clearly misguided attempt.
    • pfdietz 3y ago
      I was rebutting the claim about plastic on "a meaningful fraction of the Earth's surface". This is a weasel worded claim, but I took it to mean the plastic will be widely used as mulch on common grain crops. Other uses (specialty crops, wrapping hay after harvest) do not affect appear to me to be "meaningful" in the sense intended.