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Re:Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air by penguindev on Thursday August 15, 2013 @10:55AM (#6218144)
I think improving efficiency is indeed useless because it does not address sustainability. I don't care if its 99.999 'efficient', you're either depleting the earth or you're not. Something 10% efficient could be 100% sustainable.

And since nearly every post I see on here is about efficiency, and not sustainability, I'm compelled to offer another view point.

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Re:Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air by neltnerb on Thursday August 15, 2013 @01:48PM (#6219474)
Okay. I mean, I agree. But sustainable does need to be defined. I think the common definition is that sustainable means that it will work for the next hundred years, at which point conditions will have changed sufficiently that decisions made now will be poor.

But yes, point taken that work to decrease population in a humane way is very important and underrated by technology driven people.

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