[Jedd]

TFA asserted cause was a specific pathogen that benefited from a temperature rise, and correlated with a similar incident wiping out 200k antelopes in 2015.

You said you thought we should 'look into fertilisers' as the root cause.

Perhaps you could argue your well-reasoned case with the authors of the paper published in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41987-z

[Sparkyte]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6924646/

TLDR fertalizers increase bacterium growth study done on bowvine. Fertalizer use in Africa as a content is up 300% and 33% higher than most developing countries. For example while USA uses a lot of fertilizer a small country like South Africa uses half. That is a lot in terms of land.

[Jedd]

No one is arguing over-use of fertilisers, along with the broadscale and monoculture practices that often accompany them, is / are a massive problem.

It's just that this isn't caused by _that_ problem.

TFA, and more importantly the upstream scientific paper they're citing, determine a different cause here - increase in temperature.