Newfie wrote:Yup, I 100% get that.
NOT optimistic.
Newfie wrote:
We are on a brink, the sensible thing to-do would be to walk back.
vtsnowedin wrote:Surprising that a country with a population to feed would chose to end fertilizer and pesticide use. For every dollar you spend on fertilizer and pesticides you get three to five dollars back in higher yields. So go without and yields collapse and to avoid having the population starve you have to import food from counties that are still applying fertilizer and pesticides.
vtsnowedin wrote:Surprising that a country with a population to feed would chose to end fertilizer and pesticide use. For every dollar you spend on fertilizer and pesticides you get three to five dollars back in higher yields.
Newfie wrote:Here is a better chart.
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Limits to Growth - Business as Usual Scenario
careinke wrote:vtsnowedin wrote:Surprising that a country with a population to feed would chose to end fertilizer and pesticide use. For every dollar you spend on fertilizer and pesticides you get three to five dollars back in higher yields. So go without and yields collapse and to avoid having the population starve you have to import food from counties that are still applying fertilizer and pesticides.
They didn't, The IMF forced them to do it.
Peace
"Japan is about 10 or 20 years ahead of other countries that are going through this as well, and they're setting the groundwork of what to do and what not to do," said Erin Murphy, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and deputy director of its Economics Program.
The worrying data—already watched for years—emerged at the tail end of the Japanese economic miracle, which abruptly ended in the early 1990s. Low birth rates and high life expectancy together pose an unprecedented demographic challenge to Tokyo's policymakers
There doesn't seem to be any solutions for anything now a days. The power of depletion [decline] I suspect.
jato0072 wrote: Despite it being the "information age" no high quality information is available. The increasing noise drowns out retreating signal.
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