[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)
(HTM) web link (ourworldindata.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (ourworldindata.org)
| 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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