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from the it's-only-natural-to-question-authority dept.
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?
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Saturday April 13 2019, @04:09PM (1 child)
The Romans had something like this (Roman shared toilets) [thevintagenews.com] , should not be too hard to turn that room into a caldarium ...
Surely that's something the American Empire can improve on, no?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:09PM
Roman shared toilets
With snakes biting your balls off, and the occasional gas explosion? You're better off shitting on the sidewalk...