
Omar Flores
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Omar Flores
@OmarFWolf
Biologist. PhD in Ecology. Ecosystem modelling. #ClimateScience #DataScience #SciComm (Spanish / English) https://t.co/Y1TK2PuwyZ


Effectively all growth in corn production over the last 20 years is for ethanol. ~20 million acres of conservation land, grassland, and soybean rotation was turned into corn monoculture that effectively strip mines the topsoil. Meanwhile it’s the most fertilizer dependent crop with only a 40% uptake rate. So ~1.7 million tons of nitrogen runoff flows into the Mississippi basin annually while also polluting their own water supplies. This runoff ends up expanding the Gulf deadzone, which is also where 40% of domestic seafood comes from. It’s hard to find a worse way to create fuel, with a wicked level of waste and downstream consequences.


45% of US corn production is for fuel ethanol and related. In other words almost half of the market is a form of ag subsidy with negative effects.


Cuanto más leo y cuanto más tratan de dar explicaciones, más dudas me genera. ¿Me estáis diciendo que a los padres de un niño de dos años que ha muerto en una operación rutinaria por una enfermedad no detectada, se les acerca una jueza y un médico para pedirle sus órganos?






Se autoriza la caza nocturna y las cajas trampa dentro del nuevo plan contra la sobrepoblación de conejos en #CastillaLaMancha Serán, junto a los hurones, herramientas que podrán usar los agricultores de la región

i often think about this..






















