• @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    OK this article is infuriating, as is the product it’s hyping up.

    If 2.5% of our emissions is going toward feeding 4 billion people then I’m totally fine with letting those emissions continue. This isn’t a thing we need to “solve,” this reeks of a capitalist looking at graphs of our emissions and going “we could cut emissions by 1% here and not have to actually change our habits at all!” This isn’t the problem causing climate change.

    The energy sector accounts for over 70% of our emissions. Instead of trying to stop emitting less than 1% by pouring money into genetically manipulating plants to need less fertilizer, why don’t we instead cut 30% or more by replacing coal plants with solar, wind, and nuclear power?

  • RockyBockySocky
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    59 months ago

    If everyone went plant based we would need much much less farmland and thus need way less fertilizer.

  • IninewCrow
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    49 months ago

    High tech technology, aka humans, can also decide not to use it

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          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.

  • zoe
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    19 months ago

    Dora the explorer: can we fix it ? yes we can!