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Instead of trying to build life-supporting systems from the ground-up, look to nature, which had been thriving with no human intervention for thousands of years
by tcdent 13y ago
Instead of trying to build life-supporting systems from the ground-up, look to nature, which had been thriving with no human intervention for thousands of years.
Chemical fertilizer can't come anywhere close to the fertility and output of a rainforest. Look into holistic environmental systems; living soil, the role of fungi and bacteria in the capture and sustained release of nutrients, the role of animals in the growth/death cycle.
The world's food crisis is not caused by a lack of petrochemical distribution, but by the abuse (and thus death) of the soil.
- mempko 13y agoalso food distribution....
- tcdent 13y agoAre there any civilizations you're aware of that, after soil rehabilitation, wouldn't have a local source of food? Except for the poles and extreme elevations, this entire planet is well suited for life.
- sitkack 13y agoBorneo is going to a lifeless rock in a couple hundred years after they have killed all of their soil from Oil Palm production. After a plantation is dead from over fertilization, no life will grow. With nothing to hold the soil in place it will wash into the sea.