HeyJaredHumans: The Keystone Species
Neal Spackman on regenerative systems, soil, water, biodiversity, nature, food, climate, and civilization.
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The Washington Post is Recycling Borlaug's Defunct DDT Argument (opens the original)
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In my initial post about sharing vs sparing and the emergence of the Green Revolution, I quoted Norm Borlaug from 1972, when he argued that making DDT illegal would lead to mass starvation. Here’s the summation from what Borlaug wrote:DDT has spared something like a billion people from the curse of malaria in the last quarter of a century, and allowed a healthier labor force to step up food production in tropical countries. Without this same hard pesticide, crop losses would probably soar to 50
How Regenerative Systems Synthesize the Sharing vs Sparing Argument: "Marginal Lands" (opens the original)
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In former posts I claimed that the sharing vs sparing argument is functionally obsolete because regenerative systems have the capacity to achieve the objectives of both. This means regenerative land use can increase food production efficiency per unit of land without the negative externalities of conventional “sparing” systems, and achieve the objectives of sharing systems as it relates to soil, water, and biodiversity. This is an audacious claim, one you should rightly be skeptical of, and it i
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