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Tag Archives: soil
Chemical industrial farming is unsustainable. Why poison ourselves when pesticides don’t save more of our crops than in the past?
Pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides destroy soil, ecosystems, and a third of the crop is still lost to pests, just as in the many millennia of farming before chemicals. [ This is a book review of Dyer’s “Chasing the Red Queen”, … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture, Biodiversity Loss, Chemicals, Overshoot, Pesticides, Soil
Tagged agriculture, chemical, ecosystem, herbicide, insecticide, pesticide, soil, unsustainable
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Large animals driven extinct by human hunters still affect ecosystems today
Below is an excerpt/paraphrased of Michael Marshall’s 14 August 2013 NewScientist Ecosystems still feel the pain of ancient extinctions, the abstract of the original Nature Geoscience article, and future losses of large animals will affect tropical forests in the future. … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, Soil
Tagged biodiversity, phosphorous, soil
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Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years
Milman, O. December 2, 2015. Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say. The Guardian. The world has lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or pollution in the past 40 … Continue reading
Climate change impacts on agriculture in the U.S.
[ I’ve added a senate hearing from 2013 on drought, fire, and freeze effects on agriculture below. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation, 2015, Springer] Notes from 25 page: Hatfield, J., … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, BioInvasion, Drought, Extreme Weather, Heat, Soil, Soil, Water, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged climage change, disease, erosion, food production, pests, soil, water, weeds
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Overshoot and dieoff : humans beyond carrying capacity
Hooke, R; Martin-Duque, J.F. 2012. Land transformation by humans: A Review. Geological Society of America. Prognosis for the Future Looking ahead a few decades, land suitable for agriculture will likely continue to diminish as urban areas expand soil is degraded … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Peak Food
Tagged food, overshoot, population, soil
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