Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster

Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by username_my1 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:55AM (#28444895)

you didn't provide data, chemical based farming has been going on industrial scale for 100 years now... no barren land is accumulating. if 100 years aren't enough to evaluate long term consequences what is?

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:11AM (#28445081)

> if 100 years aren't enough to evaluate long term consequences what is?

100 years isn't long when you're changing the global ecosystem.

The Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s. We're only now beginning to agree on its long-term consequences, and quite a ways off from agreeing on mitigation steps.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by 618033988749894 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:33AM (#28445358)

What is data? In the comment I replied to, the words "rather than" indicate that the OP considered the defense "natural vs. unnatural" to be a defense based on data. I replied on that standard.

I will repeat that I hope Sri Lanka continues this experiment. Experiments like this are the only way we'll get the data we need.

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