I subscribe to the NPR “food” RSS feed.
I’ve been tired of the constant drumbeat of illegal aliens good, unproven human caused climate change bad, etc. for a while.
Can’t we just shoot these assholes?
no more corn, no more corn flakes, corn muffins, cornbread, etc.
Ocasio-Cortez will be busy as she overhauls farming and ranching......
Fertilizer produced with hydrocarbons has allowed us to double the carrying capacity of the earth.
These “calculations” are stupid and insane.
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-people-does-synthetic-fertilizer-feed
But.... We put corn in our gasoline. It is supposed to be so good that the government is going to force E15. One giant sham. With all the flooding in the Midwest people will starving so we can put corn in our gas tanks.
Soylent Green, it’s our only hope.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
– H. L. Mencken
50 years of failed apocalyptic forecasts
https://realclimatescience.com/fifty-years-of-failed-apocalyptic-forecasts/
Climate alarmists, and alarmists in general, are incompetent, dishonest hacks – who change their story every time the wind shifts. And no matter how many times they are wrong, they never lose credibility with the press.
Banning corn production will get rid of high fructose corn syrup, affordable soft drinks and skyrocketing prices on sugar and beef and ethanol.
Cow farts to NPR.
Ah but corn is the left’s agenda driven priority for ethanol- so corn will always be exempt from climate regulations fines and taxes- only cows and meat and such will be targeted for extermination
Corn is one of the Three Sisters. Does that make it a target of the left?
Transpiration.
For Gorebal Warning, dihydrogen monoxide is the sausage [wurst].
NPR knows nothing about chemistry or crop physiology.
NH3 is using on crops as its a positive ion source of Nitrogen and thus immune from leaching out of the soil during rain.
Nitrate fertilizers use negative ions and they can easily end up in the water supply during a heavy rain.
I can’t eat corn or popcorn, so rely on butter-flavored puffed corn like Pirate Booty to get my popcorn fix.
NPR, in other words, fake news. NPR is our answer to Pravda.
I stopped reading when I read the title of the “organization” that produced this bit of drivel “nature sustainability” anything with the word “sustainable” in the title is automatic given Three strikes
I predict “Farmers must die” will be one of the slogans of the climate terror.
Here I thought burning wood was more ‘dangerous’. I only burned 3 cords this winter. Plan to double that next year.