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posted by martyb on Friday April 12 2019, @09:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-only-natural-to-question-authority dept.

Phys.org:

Around 80 percent of the land area in Europe is used for settlement, agriculture and forestry. In order to increase yields even further than current levels, exploitation is being intensified. Areas are being consolidated in order to cultivate them more efficiently using larger machines. Pesticides and fertilisers are increasingly being used and a larger number of animals being kept on grazing land. "Such measures increase yield but, overall, they also have negative impacts on biodiversity," says UFZ biologist Dr. Michael Beckmann. "This is because even agricultural areas offer fauna and flora a valuable habitat—which is something that is frequently not sufficiently taken into consideration."

Betteridge's law of headlines says no, but is more intensive farming really crowding out native species more than less intensive farming?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @09:52PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @09:52PM (#828752)

    Dark ages are just what the Muslim imams want.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @10:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @10:01PM (#828759)

    Dark ages are just what the Western capitalist elites funding the Muslim imams want.

    FTFY

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @12:12AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @12:12AM (#828799)

    I believe all religious leaders yearn to return to times of ignorant and gullible controllable populaces who will believe damn near anything a man dressed in a robe and wearing a funny hat tells them.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:17AM (#828881)

      "uuuhnnn, I'm . uhhn . doing. this. uugh. for. JEEEESus!!!. Ohhh GOOOOD, take it you peasant! oooh yeaah. uuuh .... Now remember, this was all covered by the sanctity of the cross. If you tell anyone you will burn in hell forever."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @08:51AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @08:51AM (#828912)

      And cheap loud populists, like Trump and Bolsonaro to only mention 2.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:41AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:41AM (#829242)

        Trump doesn't wear the funny hat.