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#1 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 09 Apr 2014 00:39:05 GMT
| Industrial agriculture is ileinitfny sustainable as long as you have energy.You can fix nitrogen, isolate potassium from sea water, recycle phosphates from waste treatment, co-mine lower phosphate grades toghether with rare-earths and uranium.Local, organic agriculture is not sustainable. It's not just that a few billion will have to die and that it therefor fails to meet the needs of today; it also fails to meet the needs of tomorrow.Organic agriculture uses plenty of pesticides, they're just ancient and not very effective so you have to use a lot more off them; things like copper salts, neem oil, lady bugs, sulfur. Because you don't have access to proper herbicides it's very hard to practice no-till agriculture; this leads to a lot of unescessary soil errosion and you're not going to have this wast army of cattle fed by conventional agriculture, supplying a small number of farms with mountains of manure.Organic agriculture is extremely water intensive because the crop yields are so poor. In a world were you are expecting increasingly poor access to fresh water it's truly asinine to intentionally double or triple consumption.Global trade in food is vitally important to ensure a stable food supply, see the irish potato famine. Container ships are enormously efficient. Ecotards driving 20 miles to the local farmers market consume more energy in their car to pick up a bag of groceries than shipping the equivalent amount of food half-way around the globe.All food crops are extremely unnatural. They're simply nothing like their ancient ancestors, prior to our cultivation of them. Look at anything, look at wild carrots(white or purple, long and scrawny.), look at Teosinte(corn ancestor. Not even recognizable), look at wild tomatoes(thumb-nail sized), wild bananas(short, squat fruits permeated with large, inedible seeds). Rejecting not only GM, but conventional breeding, in favour of heirloom species is not only an afront to the people who developed these wonderful crops, it's extremely dangerous. We need to keep running as fast as we can to stay ahead of plant fungi, virii and other pests; deliberately choosing plants with poor resistance to these pests is insane. |
#2 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 09 Apr 2014 09:07:43 GMT
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