Re: GMO in Developing Nations

"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
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> >> To be fair, that's a bit simplistic.
> >
> >The laws of thermodynamics are. And there is no appeal.
>
> Indeed. But this was a point about dessertification, not fertiliser. The
> cause/effect connection is not as clear as was being suggested. More than
one
> thing is operating here.

but there always is more than one effect, but desertification is basically
the result to too little water and too little fertiliser combined with too
much being extracted. Throughout history there are large areas that have
been fertile but have been rendered desert not by climate change but by
passing armies destroying the infrastructure, the mongols were classic
exemplars of this

Jim Webster