Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?

[The Grand Nudger]

Where do you plan to get fertilizer from to keep farms going and producing massive amounts of food each year? Or is your answer going to be to cause more deforestation when the farmland's soil becomes infertile dirt from over farming?

This. We have two options, at present.

We can use extensively refined "inorganic" fertilizers - you'll find no lack of protesters here along the lines of raping the earth, destroying habitat, poisoning the planet and ourselves

or

We can lean more heavily on the by-products of livestock production (this is how organics roll btw) mainly, the metric tons of manure required to supply a fraction of the nutrients of the more refined "inorganic" fertilizers - you'll find no lack of protesters here along the lines of raping the earth, destroying habitat, poisoning the planet and ourselves

Both groups need to sit back, take a breather, enjoy their ribeye or their bean sprout salad (I won't judge either way), and work out a practical solution to a practical problem.

(btw, I'm reading that UN report, I don't see what you see in it, care to help me out?)