[HN Gopher] The world has passed 'peak agricultural land'
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       The world has passed 'peak agricultural land'
        
       Author : sohkamyung
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-05-30 12:58 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | polote wrote:
       | Weird that this post was included in the pool as it gained
       | significant tractions 2 days ago
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31570698
        
         | balaji1 wrote:
         | what do you mean by "included in the pool"? is that a HN thing?
        
       | AngryData wrote:
       | I would disagree until we reach arbitrary clean power generation.
       | Current agricultural land contraction is entirely based huge
       | expansions in fossil fuel based fertilizer and is not
       | sustainable. A lot of farmland is being depleted and topsoil
       | thinning which shows even with fossil fuel fertilizer we are
       | overutilizing the land beyond capacity.
        
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