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Re:When will the Netherlands disappear? by blunte on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:40AM (#21825254)
It looks to me like Germany has a significant amount of Natura 2000 sites, rather in proportion to NL in terms of land size. However, Germany has triple the percentage of forest compare to NL. Germany also has a lot of manufacturing that NL doesn't have. Both use about 50% of their land for agriculture.

From what I can gather, Dutch farming is higher output - production wise as well as emissions wise.

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Re:When will the Netherlands disappear? by the-dude on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:48AM (#21825347)
How does this explain 2 orders of a magnitude difference in allowed nitrogen disposition compared to Germany?
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Re:When will the Netherlands disappear? by blunte on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:58AM (#21825446)
NL has less biomass to absorb it - less forest and less soil.

There is basically less material for the pollutants to disperse.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

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