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By Vijay Jayaraj
Scientific advancement and agricultural technology have revolutionized food production, enabling humanity to feed more readily a ballooning population. And working behind these celebrated innovations is an unacknowledged but indispensable contributor to the world’s growing food security: rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).
The very molecule that has been wrongly branded as a doomsday gas has been contributing to increasing yields for essential crops like rice, wheat and soybeans.
Food Security is Serious Business
The 20th century’s Green Revolution demonstrated how scientific intervention – including the use of fertilizers – could dramatically boost crop yields. The late 1960s saw a huge turnaround in yields across the globe, thanks to Norman Borlaug’s high-yielding, drought-adaptive, disease-resistant varieties of food crops.
Nations that had suffered severe poverty and famine became agricultural giants within a decade or so. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, two nations that were once pleading for international aid to rescue their people from malnourishment and starvation. more
This is scientific sanity, as opposed to left wing scientific insanity, which blasts us daily with articles about foods that will kill us.
The greening of the planet. Photosynthesis is the base of the food chain for practically all life on earth. It must really pissing off the Malthusians.
Trees grow as a consequence of CO2. An average tree is 45% CO2. A tree does not grow from what is in soil. Current CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. If CO2 falls below 0.02%, plants die. We have too little carbon, not an excess. Everything is a lie about the climate.
more right wing propaganda!
Larry, ya crazy unenlightened liberal, where ya been?
I’ve missed your crazy unenlightened rants.