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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by giantg2 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:21AM (#30345510)
Depends on how you look at it. Agriculture generally requires a lot of water. Much of this corn is being irrigated with water from the aquifers.

Sustainable farming is good, but I don't think we do very much of it. I wonder if there's any evidence that we can sustainably support 8 billion people.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/kansas-aqu...

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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by gruez on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:29AM (#30346852)
>I wonder if there's any evidence that we can sustainably support 8 billion people.

it depends on the type of lifestyle you're willing to have and how much % of the GDP you're willing to pour into it. I'm sure you can sustainably feed all 8 billion people if we poured 50% of our GDP into food production and we only ate rice and beans.

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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by giantg2 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:14AM (#30347473)
"it depends on the type of lifestyle you're willing to have"

Not just oneself, but entire nations. Scarcity of resources have historically been a major cause of wars. I don't see the world coming to a consensus on lifestyle any time soon.

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Re:U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline by nerdponx on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:28AM (#30345568)
And this is why I get so bothered by all the hand-wringing over declining population growth.
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