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Evidence? Mine comes from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Evidence, the science says otherwise. Denying it in capital letters is not a valid argument.
The fact remains that fertile soil and land is a finite resource. Read the articles provided and around the subject, I’m no scientist, I’d love to have someone provide some credible sources to put my mind at ease, but from what I’ve read so far this projection is credible.What science? Yours?
The fact remains that fertile soil and land is a finite resource. Read the articles provided and around the subject, I’m no scientist, I’d love to have someone provide some credible sources to put my mind at ease, but from what I’ve read so far this projection is credible.
No but the fact remains we have an ever increasing population, ever increasing demand on land. You have provided zero sources/evidence to argue otherwise. Last time I checked fertile soil is a finite resource, all evidence supports this.It won't happen. Not any single paper can do that. You simply have to pick and trust.
I won't trust that report. If you want to discuss, we can do that. Otherwise, suit yourself.
Over the past forty years one third of arable land has been lost to pollution and degradation.It won't happen. Not any single paper can do that. You simply have to pick and trust.
I won't trust that report. If you want to discuss, we can do that. Otherwise, suit yourself.
In your opinion, is it time for a Malthusian check?No but the fact remains we have an ever increasing population, ever increasing demand on land. You have provided zero sources/evidence to argue otherwise. Last time I checked fertile soil is a finite resource, all evidence supports this.
Well if nothing is done to address the issue of declining fertile land, it will correct itself, last time I checked without grown food humanity is kind of stuffed.In your opinion, is it time for a Malthusian check?
Just wondering ... scientists have known that India has been starving for decades.Well if nothing is done to address the issue of declining fertile land, it will correct itself, last time I checked without grown food humanity is kind of stuffed.
?Just wondering ... scientists have known that India has been starving for decades.
Why are they just now sending out an alarm?
Is it coming too close to home?
Let's say, for example, that a Malthusian check occurs and reduces the earth's population down to 3 billion.
Wouldn't India still be starving?
Goonie, soil and plant science is not accounted for in what you have posted. NPK fertilizers, turning under crops (organic matter) are but a very few items to recognize crop rotations and harvests are only getting better. CO2 increase is no longer a part of Liebig's law of growth limitation.Not a doomsday prophecy. It’s entirely possible to judge how much fertile soil is available, and that has been done. Now it is possible for a scientific breakthrough to comealong to improve fertility and prolong the lifespan, but 90% of agricultural science research at the moment is on maximising yealds, for maximum profit, whilst increasing soil deterioration.
This is observable science.
Okay ... fair enough ... scientists have been arcing & sparking about "insectageddon" for decades.And who says they are only now sending out the alarm?
Here's what's interesting: your OP says ...Goonie said:As you have said Malthus warned about it centuries ago.
I don't know how big Germany's best protected nature reserves are, but are you saying that they have experienced a 75% decline in insects, and that points towards the end of habitable life on earth???With less than 60 years of harvests left in what remains of fertile soil, and a dramatic 75% decline in insects in some of the best protected nature reserves in Germany pointing towards the end of habitable life on earth.
You got that right!Fertile soil WILL NOT be significantly reduced in human era. I am not even sure it would be reduced or not.
The United States went through a worse disaster than that in the 1930's (Dust Bowl) and came back.Reread your source and then some basic ag books.
No but the fact remains we have an ever increasing population, ever increasing demand on land. You have provided zero sources/evidence to argue otherwise. Last time I checked fertile soil is a finite resource, all evidence supports this.
Over the past forty years one third of arable land has been lost to pollution and degradation.
Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say
the world is running out of fertile soil - Bing
I am not worried about the insects, I am worried about me. Insecticide effects the nervous system and I really do not want that in my food. I am worried about it enough so that I will pay extra for organic food that does not have any insecticide in it.75% decline in insects
Leviticus 25:4:
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Yes it is. Fertile soil which is what we are talking about is being lost at a greater rate than it is being produced.First, soil is NOT a finite resource.
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