Difference between revisions of "Talk:Survival of our species/Risks to humanity"
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'Wheat' wrote: "Soil erosion. Depletion of the high quality soil required for growing crops has been the downfall of past civilizations." | 'Wheat' wrote: "Soil erosion. Depletion of the high quality soil required for growing crops has been the downfall of past civilizations." | ||
| − | It is certainly a good point and I can well believe this could have been the downfall of past civilisations, but we have the technological capability already to cope if this | + | It is certainly a good point and I can well believe this could have been the downfall of past civilisations, but we have the technological capability already to cope if this became a widescale problem. Examples are ramping up industrial production of fertilisers and we already have the machinery to spread it on the land, [http://verticalfarm.com/ vertical farming], {{wp|hydroponics|hydroponics}} and {{wp|Mariculture|mariculture}}. |
Revision as of 00:37, 3 December 2007
Soil erosion
Removed entry about soil erosion.
'Wheat' wrote: "Soil erosion. Depletion of the high quality soil required for growing crops has been the downfall of past civilizations."
It is certainly a good point and I can well believe this could have been the downfall of past civilisations, but we have the technological capability already to cope if this became a widescale problem. Examples are ramping up industrial production of fertilisers and we already have the machinery to spread it on the land, vertical farming, hydroponics 
and mariculture .
