silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThe pain from the Strait of Hormuz crisis will be felt far beyond the pump | Four billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.www.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1330arrow-down12
arrow-up1328arrow-down1external-linkThe pain from the Strait of Hormuz crisis will be felt far beyond the pump | Four billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.www.vox.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareGreyghoster@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoTBH I thought it was closer to 9 billion but that could be a rounding error.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoIt’s probably that in some areas, they need to use fertiliser that’s based on biproducts of fossil fuel production, or that’s the electricity the farms use. Though honestly pretty much every farm uses tractors and stuff that runs on fossil fuels too
TBH I thought it was closer to 9 billion but that could be a rounding error.
It’s probably that in some areas, they need to use fertiliser that’s based on biproducts of fossil fuel production, or that’s the electricity the farms use.
Though honestly pretty much every farm uses tractors and stuff that runs on fossil fuels too