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		rowanajmarshall on Aug 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capi... Why would a bad dependency ratio mean we stop using industrial fertilisers? If anything it's the opposite, using more fertiliser and technologies to cope with labour shortages.

lainga on Aug 22, 2024 [–]

I assert at least one person is required to run the fertiliser plants; but if that is wrong, my whole proposal falls apart, and swiftly

bobthepanda on Aug 22, 2024 | [–]

that would also imply that if we were to see a labor force contraction that fertilizer production would be the hardest hit, and first.

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