Think most commenters are correct and that tech and screens have usurped more “medicinal” drugs.
What I find interesting is the general lack of care among folks here at HN. There was a comment thread about some person in AL alluding to not being able to find qualified workers at their government contractor implying a morale hang up on “weapon systems”
I’d argue tech kills more folks than these contractors but people can easily look past that.
Agree, but from a political standpoint it's cheap. The subsidies are overall not expensive and it's good to incentivize over production of crops from a nation security standpoint.
Below comments are correct, EVs will ultimately be the equalizer
Western Kansas seems to average in the upper teens to mid 20s of inches of rainfall per typical year (drier years do come as the article notes). If it could be husbanded well you'd think that would be sufficient rainfall to grow these crops.
That’s an average calendar year most likely. A corn crops roughly needs 20 inches of water to be viable. Corn is usually only grown in 1/3 of the year.
We just shouldn’t subsidize crops in this region. If people want to make a run at it, more power to them and it may work in some years. But no subsidy
To the downvoters: I just assume that a person who identifies enough with the high water use avocado to have it in their user name would have done some research into agricultural water use.
For now. And American oversupply stabilizes other regions of the earth.the arab spring rebellion started of as a protest against rising bread prices.The bread prices rose due to American food aid being redirected to biofuels. Good intentions do not transfer to good politics. If change is necessary make it gradually so the world can adapt to it.
Practically speaking I agree, but it's a step backwards in that it's the direct consequence of legislation to remove extant environmental/habitat protections that were put in place by state/federal management agencies. This is not really dissimilar to legislatures in certain states that legislate policies that override hunting/fishing agencies recommendations due to public sentiment (NJ bear hunt ban or the bill in Wisconsin legislature trying to increase quotas for wolf harvest).
Conservation, habitat and environmental protection should, by nature, be managed on longer scales than what election driven and political legislatures are capable of.
Abundance (great)
Anxious generation (great)
Ishmael (great)
Who we are and how we got here (great)