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Poll: Will the majority of the earth be hostile to human habitation within 100 years?
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Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll.
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll.
(November 13, 2021 at 1:26 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Here's an outlook for your consideration.  Tell me if you think it's cynical.  There's just one way to get into sustainable ag right now.  It's super simple.  

Inherited wealth.  

Not kidding.  That's it, that's all.  It's a known known.  Dirty little secret of the food journalism industry.  plucky entreprenuers try to buck that trend and the national conversation creates a buzz about them..but then they move on to other things and don't follow up.  Those guys fail.  Overwhelmingly.  The ones that succeed...independently wealthy very nearly to a man.  The problem isn't so much to find new ways to grow, but to find ways to make money doing things we've known how to do for quite some time.  Thousands of years, in many cases.  The problem with respect to farms as a business is investment.  You can't corner the market on unpatentable systems and methods through lawfare.

Commons production, regenerative ag, closed loops, diversified crop portfolios, site specific consideration, highly specialized labor.  These aren't sci fi solutions, but they're the only game in town, in mere reality.  Outside of farming by oils numbers, that is.

95% of rice farms in Arkansas are family owned and run.  Precision levelled, low flood fields.  Real time data on display maps.  Remote irrigation control.  Hi tech stuff has increased profits and made their jobs easier.  Great opportunity for an instrumentation and controls engineer, but don't talk to them about kooky liberal vaccines and climate change.
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Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Angrboda - June 28, 2021 at 11:07 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by brewer - June 28, 2021 at 1:23 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Brian37 - June 28, 2021 at 3:23 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Brian37 - June 28, 2021 at 6:23 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - June 29, 2021 at 10:25 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - June 29, 2021 at 6:47 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Brian37 - July 2, 2021 at 10:05 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Brian37 - July 2, 2021 at 10:35 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Brian37 - July 4, 2021 at 11:40 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Sal - July 4, 2021 at 4:55 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 9, 2021 at 12:41 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 10:55 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by onlinebiker - August 10, 2021 at 11:10 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Peebo-Thuhlu - August 10, 2021 at 11:39 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 11:49 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by onlinebiker - August 10, 2021 at 12:17 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 12:46 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 3:55 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 6:31 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rev. Rye - August 10, 2021 at 11:31 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 4:56 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 10, 2021 at 6:22 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rev. Rye - August 10, 2021 at 6:29 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rev. Rye - August 10, 2021 at 7:11 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rev. Rye - August 10, 2021 at 7:33 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 11, 2021 at 7:52 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ronaldo - August 15, 2021 at 7:17 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 15, 2021 at 1:44 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ravenshire - August 16, 2021 at 9:43 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rahn127 - August 16, 2021 at 4:51 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ronaldo - August 16, 2021 at 5:44 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ronaldo - August 16, 2021 at 5:48 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ronaldo - August 16, 2021 at 5:50 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by HappySkeptic - August 16, 2021 at 12:05 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Figbash - August 16, 2021 at 12:50 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 16, 2021 at 2:25 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rahn127 - August 17, 2021 at 12:38 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ronaldo - August 18, 2021 at 8:18 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ronaldo - August 21, 2021 at 4:40 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 21, 2021 at 12:24 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 2:15 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jackalope - August 19, 2021 at 4:25 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by HappySkeptic - August 18, 2021 at 10:17 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 18, 2021 at 11:09 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ravenshire - August 18, 2021 at 12:45 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - August 18, 2021 at 11:36 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rev. Rye - August 19, 2021 at 11:04 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - August 19, 2021 at 11:15 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rev. Rye - August 19, 2021 at 9:37 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 19, 2021 at 10:15 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Angrboda - August 19, 2021 at 10:36 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 12:31 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 21, 2021 at 1:07 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 1:26 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 21, 2021 at 2:39 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 3:41 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 23, 2021 at 2:53 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - August 21, 2021 at 2:18 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 2:34 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 4:07 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 4:16 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 21, 2021 at 6:46 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 7:14 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 21, 2021 at 7:46 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 7:51 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 7:25 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 7:27 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 7:56 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 7:58 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 8:06 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Mashmont - August 21, 2021 at 8:11 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - August 21, 2021 at 8:23 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Fake Messiah - August 23, 2021 at 10:58 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by AtheistQuest - August 26, 2021 at 10:33 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 26, 2021 at 11:18 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by AtheistQuest - August 26, 2021 at 11:30 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 26, 2021 at 11:40 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Angrboda - August 26, 2021 at 12:08 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - August 26, 2021 at 11:36 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by AtheistQuest - August 26, 2021 at 11:57 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 26, 2021 at 12:01 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - August 26, 2021 at 12:33 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 26, 2021 at 3:34 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - August 27, 2021 at 11:11 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - September 2, 2021 at 1:36 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Alan V - November 6, 2021 at 9:53 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Pat Mustard - November 13, 2021 at 5:55 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Alan V - November 13, 2021 at 7:37 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Pat Mustard - November 13, 2021 at 12:42 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Alan V - November 13, 2021 at 1:21 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Angrboda - November 13, 2021 at 1:25 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Alan V - November 17, 2021 at 5:01 pm
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RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Alan V - November 10, 2021 at 9:15 am
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RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rahn127 - November 11, 2021 at 8:38 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Spongebob - November 12, 2021 at 2:10 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - November 13, 2021 at 11:26 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - November 13, 2021 at 11:50 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Ranjr - November 14, 2021 at 12:35 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 13, 2021 at 1:45 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by zebo-the-fat - November 13, 2021 at 3:54 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 13, 2021 at 4:18 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 14, 2021 at 12:49 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - November 15, 2021 at 10:18 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Rahn127 - November 21, 2021 at 8:43 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - November 21, 2021 at 11:03 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 21, 2021 at 11:42 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Brian37 - November 21, 2021 at 11:48 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - November 21, 2021 at 11:59 am
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 21, 2021 at 12:18 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - November 21, 2021 at 12:51 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 21, 2021 at 12:53 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - November 21, 2021 at 1:20 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Jehanne - November 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Anomalocaris - November 21, 2021 at 6:15 pm
RE: Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll. - by Nay_Sayer - December 1, 2021 at 7:32 pm

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