Lee Duna to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoChemical fertilizer is a climate disaster. Can high-tech biology fix it?www.canarymedia.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkChemical fertilizer is a climate disaster. Can high-tech biology fix it?www.canarymedia.comLee Duna to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-square@NocturnalMorninglink4•1 year agoWe could just stop using it… no need for a technological fix.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•1 year agookay let’s just kill the poorest people on the planet, good plan
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year ago4 billion people would die / wouldn’t be able to eat
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoThat’s absolutely not true. Chemical fertalizer just makes it so less hands need to grow food. We absolutely do not need it. We’ve grown crops for tens of thousands of years without them. Famines are social problems, not technical ones.
We could just stop using it… no need for a technological fix.
okay let’s just kill the poorest people on the planet, good plan
4 billion people would die / wouldn’t be able to eat
That’s absolutely not true. Chemical fertalizer just makes it so less hands need to grow food.
We absolutely do not need it. We’ve grown crops for tens of thousands of years without them.
Famines are social problems, not technical ones.