drhugsymcfur

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[–] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Satisfactory, it's so much fun, but looking forward to the endgame builds is super daunting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSV2Ku3DhTc

[–] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

You cannot feed 8 billion people with the arable land that we have available without synthetic fertilizer.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-with-and-without-fertilizer

Even if we were to Thanos snap the world population and feed those people with only compost/manure/night soil, a large percentage of the labor force would need to go into food production, and cheap food would no longer be a possibility.

Farmers are using all the manure that they have available in the most efficient manner that the market will bear right now and even then I don't know about any for profit farmer in my extension office who doesn't use additional synthetic fertilizer.