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Re:Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism by rowanajmarshall on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:31PM (#41323133)
Why would a bad dependency ratio mean we stop using industrial fertilisers? If anything it's the opposite, using more fertiliser and technologies to cope with labour shortages.
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Re:Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism by lainga on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:32PM (#41323141)
I assert at least one person is required to run the fertiliser plants; but if that is wrong, my whole proposal falls apart, and swiftly
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Re:Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism by bobthepanda on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:51PM (#41323304)
that would also imply that if we were to see a labor force contraction that fertilizer production would be the hardest hit, and first.
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