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[hep]

Michael Pollan's excellent Omnivore's Dilemma, ISBN-13 978-1594200823, features an anecdote about the Mayans early on in the first chapter. The Maya word that referred to themselves and their civilization was "corn walker," and often you hear Chicanos and other Mexican indigenous peoples using that term on themselves even today. But Pollan points

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[austinrobinson]

The answer is we need more people to die, quickly.
Go terrorists, go.

[testing4l]

Solve this problem: Your entire food manufacturing industry is structured on an energy loss.

Incomplete premise. The entire universe is structured on energy loss. Consider, for example, the heat death of the universe

Solve for x, where x = the magic solution to end world hunger, obesity, the oil crisis and save the environment.The Earth only gets as much as energy as the sun puts out. If those on Earth use more energy than the sun puts out, then there is an energy problem. Plants depend on the nitrogen cycle and there has been no shortage of people able to grow plants. In fact, considering the Green Revolution, quite the opposite

[jtzapp]

Indeed. It should also be said that plants do not fix nitrogen at all, the prokaryotes in the soil and the root nodules of especially legumes do all the work. It's therefore disingenuous to compare the rates of fixation.