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Environment & Energy

NickB79

(19,233 posts)

10. Why? No one is listening

Reply to lordsummerisle (Reply #9)

Wed May 20, 2020, 09:38 AM

May 2020

The Ogallalla Aquifer will fail in the next 30 yr from overpumping and vast parts of the central US breadbasket will be forced back to shortgrass prairie on their own. That's around the same time we're expected to hit 9 billion mouths to feed and serious climate destruction setting in.

Not gonna be much land left for sufficient crops, much less biomass plastic or biofuels.

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The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year [View all] lordsummerisle May 2020 OP

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