Dust to Dust: a man-made Malthusian crisis

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2. A couple of comments, ...

throughout the tropics the life expectancy of the green revolution on a piece of land is about sixty years, Much of the deforested land that was put into agriculture in the fifties is barely farmable now, no matter how many chemicals you use. The bananas, coffee, and sugar cane plantations, are seriously depleted, and now stuck in the mono culture meme. To turn the land back in something imitating natural growing conditions takes huge amounts of organic matter, decades of time, and large expenditure of capital. What ends up happening, is the land is often subdivided and sold as subdivisions.

The second point is the rape of Africa. Not enough calamity the deforestation and change of climate promises for the future. Some of the most promising locations for expanding agriculture are experiencing foreign agribusiness control of water rights and the land, leaving many indigenous who depend on the water shed, high and dry. For the foreign investor what's not to like. Near slave labor, no environmental protection laws, the promise of food for eurasia, and no need to maintain the infrastructure for indigenous poverty.

We are sure to see the first wave of migratory climate crisis, on the forgotten continent. It is already starting now, and I await the global community's actions, when crisis becomes catastrophe. It will probably mimic the response at the Warsaw conference.