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Politics : Politics of Energy

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36058)12/5/2012 12:46:55 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 86356
 
"you're referring to terrestrial plants"

Yup; mostly only some Californians, Chinese, and Japanese eat seaweed.

most of those crops are NOT natural.. "
Yup... we could go back to the Buffalo Commons, but a lot of us would starve. There are 7 billion of us precisely because we eat unnatural crops.

en.wikipedia.org

"whereas only nutrients and Iron are limiting factors to Phytoplankton"

Also temperature and ocean pH. If we were baleen whales, you might be able to feed us, but...

we aren't.
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