Hannah Ritchie recently blogged about the miracle of modern agriculture. In the comments, I thanked her for sharing straightforward facts. To which someone replied that their field in the UK was producing less hay than decades ago.
Um, what? Talk about finding the cloud water droplet in the silver lining.
I'm sure UK Doom wouldn't have been happy if his yield was up but the graphs above were inverted.
The worst thing about the social internet is that it is an outrage machine. Anger, outrage, doom, hatred - they drive "engagement." Being online leads us to think that most people are utterly miserable.
Being in the real world, though, doesn't support this.
And neither does looking at balanced, unbiased facts:
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| From here - worth a look. |
I hope this blog can, on balance, make your life better. I don't expect to convince any Doomer or Vegan, but I would like others to realize there are other views.
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