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Originally Posted by sendler
The Green Revolution of fossil fuel powered fertilizer, irrigation and land prep and machinery and processing and transport has more than doubled crop yields in previously underdeveloped areas since 1960. Returning to organic-permaculture style land use from the decline of fossil fuel and Phosphate availability either from depletion or "leave it in the ground" climate action, will result in lesser productivity. It is said that the Green revolution spared 1 Billion (1/3 of the world overpopulation) people from famine in 1970. We now have nearly 8 billion to feed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution |
And this is not sustainable. We have already eroded away a massive amount of soil. Factory farming will collapse, and if we don't stop using artificial chemicals, then our society will collapse.