Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > sci.physics > #540596

Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years

From jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years
Date 2015-12-21 13:57 +0000
Organization "Have EDDT, will travel"
Message-ID <PM00052768DB69120F@aca411da.ipt.aol.com> (permalink)
References (11 earlier) <MZWdnbDFCZq64ujLnZ2dnUU7-eOdnZ2d@giganews.com> <MZWdnbDFCZq64ujLnZ2dnUU7-eOdnZ2d@giganews.com> <7gegkc-3qr.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <PM000527553B542DB7@aca41c62.ipt.aol.com> <4o8jkc-4c8.ln1@mail.specsol.com>

Show all headers | View raw


jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years
>>>>>
>>
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/earth-has-lost-a-third-of-arable-land-19785
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The world has lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or
>>>>> pollution in the past 40 years, with potentially disastrous
>>>>> consequences as global demand for food soars, scientists have
>>>>> warned.
>>>>>
>>>>> New research has calculated that nearly 33 percent of the world?s
>>>>> adequate or high-quality food-producing land has been lost at a rate
>>>>> that far outstrips the pace of natural processes to replace
>>>>> diminished soil.
>>>
>>> Ever heard of fertilizer made from, gasp, fossil fuels?
>>>
>>> When in Korea I saw farmers growing crops on the same fields they had
>>> been using for thousands of years.
>>>
>> What they used for fertilizer is being banned by the EPA forcing
>> agriculture people to buy fertilizer.  Human waste can also be used
>> but isn't in a lot of places.
>>
>> /BAH
>
> It is in many parts of Asia.

OK.  I knew Japan recycled but didn't know about other places
so I wrote a hand wave :-).

/BAH

Back to sci.physics | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 10:00 -0600
  Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-19 16:50 +0000
    Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-12-20 14:29 +0000
      Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-20 18:31 +0000
        Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-12-21 13:57 +0000
  Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years chanB4 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-12-19 13:28 -0600
    sNELL\S GOD-AM LAw noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 15:21 -0800
  Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 09:29 -0800
    Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 11:01 -0800
    Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years chanB4 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-12-20 13:55 -0600
    Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 14:50 -0600
      Re: Not Good | Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-12-20 22:46 -0600

csiph-web