Originally posted by Robtard
Just curious if our crops and vectors of pollination existed just the same back in the Cambrian period and/or late Ordovician period?
Bees came about 200mya-120mya
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061209083342.htm
And here is the relationship between pollination and pollinators:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221300256X
Crop yields, both absolute numbers and yield per acre, has increased year over year for years, as well. This is partially or even mostly due to improved technology.
Arable land is increasing due to global warming:
http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-permafrost-melting-2011-07
http://english.chinatibetnews.com/hb/News/201507/t20150713_693852.html
And if any place says that arable land is decreasing due to climate change, you can automatically be sure that they have a dishonest agenda and should throw them away. Even some reputable groups are falsely claiming arable land is "decreasing" due to global warming. Well, we just so happen to have evidence that arable land will vastly increase both from times past and from current trends. So if arable land is increasing (tundra thawing, mostly), how the hell could arable land also decrease? Sure, in specific locations, it will decrease, but, overall, it is increasing. It is quite disturbing how much of a "global warming is bad" bias there is. It's not 100% bad, not at all.
Check it out, in some groups (sites), they claim arable land is decreasing but pests will increase due to the warmer lands. Ugh...you can't have less arable land but more pests in the same land. The pests have to feed on plants/crops. So either the flora increases and the pests increase or they both decrease. They have such a clear agenda that they cannot keep their head out of their ass.
Here's what's really bad about global warming: poor farmers in India and Africa may lose arable land and it may be more difficult for them to farm or adapt.
Poor people are impacted the most. Coastal areas with poor people. Areas that were not necessarily super dry will become or have become super dry and are not longer arable...in poor people places. So this is a case for "help the poor" rather than "stop all things that may or may not contribute to global warming."
Edit - Also, hypercanes seem to have been a very real thing in the past. Forget about the near fantasy of hypercanes, earth still experienced super hurricanes even in the last few hundred years (and they figured this out by examining sediments). Global warming should increase these (in number and intensity), right?
Originally posted by -Pr-
I have to admit i'm a little in two minds about it all. I don't like how they're cannibalizing shit either, but I think there's something to be said for brick and mortar stores just not adapting to the times either, or continuing to be stubborn about things.
Im curious as to what they could do? Im not sure its anything at all. I rarely online shop and when i go to stores or malls they seem like ghost towns