Crop yields have more than doubled since 1961. The press reports this as a 21% decline.
“between 1961 and 2021, climate change reduced global agricultural yield by 21%.”
How agriculture is exacerbating global warming | S&P Global Commodity Insights
Crop Yields – Our World in Data
During the 1960s millions of people were dying in Asia from famine, and US academics said the world would run out of food by 1975.
17 Nov 1967, Page 9 – The Salt Lake Tribune at Newspapers.com
Aug 03, 1962, page 4 – The Winchester Sun at Newspapers.com
Feb 19, 1966, page 7 – The News-Messenger at Newspapers.com
“Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds”
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds – NASA
so crop yields are down at the same time the population of the world doubled. hhmmm. what are people eating? Soylent Green? this is the kind of junk science that Congressgirl AOC was pushing 4 years ago. let’s hope it doesn’t make a comeback in 2028
How do they feed a global population that went up from 3 billion to 8.2 billion with a 21 % decline in food?
This combined with the ” fact” that
” 10 mio hectars of arable land are being lost every year and that
1 /4 of earths soil already has significantly less humus and nutrients than 25 years ago and can no longer be used as cropland”
Maria Kreutzberger, German Environment Agency
And all this combined with endless droughts and rainbombs and climate emergencies.
The math doesn’t add up.
And why are western government trying so hard to reduce farming if the food situation is so dire?