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by Sparkyte 967 days ago
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.
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Jedd 966 days ago
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.

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