This will never not bother me. Talk about consequences. Maybe people should of listen to us yelling about the problems of monoculture agriculture. Not even talking about the amount of crops grown that isn’t for human consumption
Veganism or barbarism
One day I want to see the confidential docs to get an idea of the thought process in the Pentagon before the war started.
@grok summarize these intelligence reports and create a plan based on them
Imagine using Grok, and it breaches the confidentiality of the prompts and questions the military asked of it, and you actually get a good answer.
They knew all of this would happen. This is the ramp-up to world war and everyone in power knows it. Things are not going to get better for quite some time
It’s 2026. Were they expecting public support when it’s pretty known that’s all self-inflicted?
Public support is literally irrelevant
Naïve of me to be thinking we’re still in the old order.
Although shipments through the strait have largely stopped, global fertilizer trade has not come to a complete halt.
The WTO reported in October that imports of nitrogen-based fertilizers worldwide were only 2.8% below recent averages, while imports of phosphate fertilizers were 2.2% higher, as buyers turned to alternative suppliers.
It bothers me that the article author seems to think you can just sub phosphate for nitrogen and get the same result. Anyway, given how over-applied nitrogen-based fertilizers are, especially in South Asia, it seems like the impact on producers will mainly be through increased costs.
Friendship ended with overapplication of nitrogen fertilizer, Johnson-Su bioreactor is my best friend now
Yeah, there’s a gazillion ways to reduce the need for synthetic nitrogen while maintaining or even improving yields, but that would undermine agricultural industrialization and we can’t have that.
Great leap into the abyss
