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NickB79

(19,113 posts)
8. All "biomass will save us" proposals are wasting our time
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:46 PM
May 2020

Without either a massive switch to a plant based diet, or a substantial drop in world population, we simple don't have any extra arable land left. If anything, we need to start restoring farmland to forests and grasslands while we still can, before the soil is too degraded and water resources too depleted.

Biomass as a replacement for oil is a pipe dream.

Thank God TheFarseer May 2020 #1
Hope it works. Baked Potato May 2020 #2
I detest plastic.Even virgogal May 2020 #3
Plant sugars I_UndergroundPanther May 2020 #4
Let's hope this will be our new plastic! Tired of having to buy everything in plastic. Canoe52 May 2020 #5
We've already cleared most of the world's prairies for cropland NickB79 May 2020 #6
Here's the company who came up with this: lordsummerisle May 2020 #7
All "biomass will save us" proposals are wasting our time NickB79 May 2020 #8
You should enlighten them n/t lordsummerisle May 2020 #9
Why? No one is listening NickB79 May 2020 #10
Someone must be listening n/t lordsummerisle May 2020 #11
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