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To: combjelly who wrote (894099)	10/15/2015 9:34:09 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574477

Your claim is absurd. You do realize that practically all chemicals used in the farming process are highly dependent on the existence of fossil fuels, for energy and often as a raw material? That important modalities, like aerial application, require fossil fuels? And that the most important single method of preventing crop failures -- genetically modified seed -- depends heavily on fossil fuels? I'm guessing farming isn't one of the topics you know much of anything about ...

To: combjelly who wrote (894099)	10/16/2015 2:37:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	4 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 jlallen locogringo PKRBKR Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574477

CJ, as usual, you split hairs because you care more about "being right" than about making a valid point. My point is that agriculture overall has improved tremendously thanks to machines that burn fossil fuels. Whatever impact crop failures due to the changing environment has on agricultural output is more than made up for by the benefits of these machines. And that includes harvesting, terraforming, irrigation, transportation, and all of the other aspects of our industrialized economy that allows us to enjoy bountiful harvests and supermarkets that can now differentiate between many different types of food, including organic. Societies that suffer from food shortages often are in that situation due to lack of infrastructure, a backwards economy, and oppression that prevents any of these basic problems from being solved. From Somalia to North Korea, this has been the sad truth about lack of food and starvation. We can produce the food easily, as we obese Americans have shown. The problem is getting these societies to solve their basic issues. That's why they're called "Third World nations." To pretend that their problems stem from "climate change" is sheer vanity for you enviro-wackos. Tenchusatsu