But that move to dairy from beef or sheep farming wasn't to feed the world, it was just to sell milk powder to China.
- Thinking beyond the anthropocentric and realize we've created many ocean dead zones: e.g. https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/happenowdeadzone/ . Think about what this'll mean in terms of ocean temperature in life within our lifetimes.
- Many farmsites simply use way too much nitrogen, possibly impacting human drinking water (one good person to follow in Iowa is Chris Jones ( https://mobile.twitter.com/RiverRaccoon/status/1541487782933... ) and Silvia Secchi ( https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfSecchi )
- Despite the above the predicament of deciding to use nitrogen inputs during adverse weather conditions (curious to hear about the alternatives here, from what I see even smallholder farmers that try to minimize nitrogen input still use a bit of it).
- The haber bosch process itself, and industries seeking to find alternatives to produce ammonia gas (iirc likely used in making diesel DEF fluid urea - https://newatlas.com/energy/green-ammonia-phosphonium-produc... ).
- The article also cites norman borlaug, of which there's plenty of questions to ask around the economic and ecological narratives around that work - e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-022-10325-2 and likely 'the violence of the green revolution' by vandana shiva, and 'the globalization of wheat' https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947349/