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Epitope posted:Except that we're, almost literally, eating oil. mainly out of convenience rather than necessity
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Raskolnikov38 posted:The mass usage of phosphate fertilizers came up during fishmech's age o' corn derail that had me wondering, if most of this stuff ends up in the oceans can't we just extract it similarly to how people have been going on about getting uranium out of seawater? you need mindbogglingly vast quantities of phosphate to sustain the modern agricultural system you do not need very much uranium (in relative terms) to fuel a nuclear plant
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Forgall posted:Guess we are just going to farm the old way till there's a huge food crisis and billions starve. Then we might think about switching. That's really not likely to happen - we'll use the easiest and most accessible resources until they start getting scarce/expensive, at which point people will have an incentive to start introducing alternatives. It's not like we're going to wake up one day and go 'ooops, all the productive land/phosphate/whatever is all gone, time to die.'
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