[mr_cyborg]

This sounds a little too much like what happened in Sri Lanka[0]. Is now a great time to go messing with food supply anywhere? Pricing and availability is VERY out of wack in my part of the US still.

0: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/18/a-food-crisis-looms...

[cato_the_elder]

I kinda think that we aren't too far away from developing a western version of something similar to Lysenkoism [1]. It will probably start with a propaganda campaign "fact-checking" the efficacy of fertilizers and suggesting "alternatives".

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

[vaidhy]

I think most people read the SriLanka situation in reverse. My understanding is that they ran out of money to buy fertilizer and hence switched to organic as a cheaper alternative which also fizzled out - the one they imported from china turned out to be unusable.

[zitsarethecure]

No it doesn't. Working towards a modest reduction in emissions is massively different than banning fertilizer use overnight.

[origin_path]

The problems of doing so don't change depending on how fast you do it, in this case.