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Skaebo t1_isshtas wrote

Imagine all the methane in the atmosphere from all the poop. Humans are a virus. Can't wait til it's the mudskipper's turn at the evo thing.

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CRO553R t1_issm53q wrote

Replying to Skaebo (#131,464)

It's not really the poop that's the issue...a good chuck of the world's Potash (potassium for fertilizer) is mined in Ukraine and the surrounding regions. The shortage has become so bad, decommissioned potashmines in the US are being brought back online to meet demand.

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user___________ t1_issn75i wrote

Why did you show Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Taiwan, and the Indian/Pakistani parts of Kashmir as China?

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PadFoot2008 t1_issnb73 wrote

When did the China capture Tajikistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Taiwan and Kashmir region of India and Pakistan. I think you meant r/Alternatehistory

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postedUpOnTheBlock t1_issx2di wrote

If you think of earths continents and countries as a whole, all prices are set for ourselves, by ourselves. All debt is owed to ourselves. When we talk about global food prices, really any price, reaching historical highs and how detrimental it all can be, I can’t help thinking how silly it all is through that logical lens. I know it’s not realistically that simple, but it still seems so illogically silly.

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DooDooSlinger t1_issxoj9 wrote

Looking at percent increases month on month for something as seasonal as agricultural exports makes no sense. Furthermore increasing import prices may also cause production to be redirected to the interior market. This also does not take domestic demand into account. Also this absolutely does not prove anything about fertilizers. At the very least look at agricultural output per hectare, search for confounding factors such as weather and ... Look at fertilizer imports, reserves and shortages maybe ? What is this, russian propaganda?

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mini_souffle t1_ist5e2j wrote

Or call me crazy, we could start industrializing rotational grazing and have really great soil.

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Future_Green_7222 t1_ist9h8v wrote

We could reduce the amount of food we need to produce by cutting on meat, then we won't need to feed as many animals. Thermodynamics ppl

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jmlinden7 t1_ist9juz wrote

Replying to postedUpOnTheBlock (#132,278)

Prices represent trade of goods and services, currency is just a middleman.

It takes a lot of goods and services to create food and get it to people's mouths before it goes bad.

Those goods and services themselves require a lot of goods and services to create and get it to farms where the food is grown

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DoctorSnooss t1_istc3gl wrote

Perfect I was just thinking that the destruction of the planet could use even more financial incentive.

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R3lay0 t1_isteg0o wrote

What does the sentence "How the top four importers and exporter changed their growth" mean? How does one change their growth? What is plotted here?

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kmalbin t1_isths9r wrote

Replying to 685327594 (#131,958)

Also fertilizer plants in US had maintenance and construction deferred during the pandemic which led to shutdowns without any production capacity coming online. The compressors used in those plants are only available from a limited number of vendors.

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santafemayand t1_isu0ca8 wrote

Why is this chart so confusing? What is being shown here ? Growth of what damnit?

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IllRoad1059 t1_isuit0f wrote

Beautiful data is easy to understand

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boycott_intel t1_isurfet wrote

What is the vertical axis?

If you are plotting something related to agriculture, there must be seasonality, which you would need to show in order to interpret whatever you are plotting, no?

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tjmille3 t1_isvbd68 wrote

How much of this is accounted for by the seasonal buying patterns? Because that's a huge factor in fertilizer.

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