There’s actually a really interesting story here. Rice production, in addition to deforestation, has been linked to starting global warming about 5000 years ago. While the climate should have been naturally cooling due to decreased insolation, the methane released from the start of intensive rice agriculture and the CO2 from deforestation prevented this. Here’s a summary.
Yes like agriculture uses resources, resources need to be responsibly managed, not responsibly managing said resources either because we were 5,000 years ago and didn’t know better or if it’s now and we do know better we just aren’t willing to pay for it is what causes climate change not things just existing
I kind of think we should first address the things that have changed the climate in the couple centuries since they were invented, and then tackle the stuff that took 5000 years.
For sure. The early anthropocene basically just delayed the onset of the next ice age. The modern anthropocene is ending the entire ice age paradigm and sending us back to the hothouse earth that we had 50 million years ago.
There’s actually a really interesting story here. Rice production, in addition to deforestation, has been linked to starting global warming about 5000 years ago. While the climate should have been naturally cooling due to decreased insolation, the methane released from the start of intensive rice agriculture and the CO2 from deforestation prevented this. Here’s a summary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthropocene
P.S. fuck capitalists
The article just says that it was due to the rise of agriculture, not rice in particular.
Edit: and fuck capitalists
Yes like agriculture uses resources, resources need to be responsibly managed, not responsibly managing said resources either because we were 5,000 years ago and didn’t know better or if it’s now and we do know better we just aren’t willing to pay for it is what causes climate change not things just existing
Apologies, here is the original article by Ruddiman. Methane production is linked to rice farming since it involves creating artificial wetlands.
https://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Ruddiman2003.pdf
Thanks for sharing.
I kind of think we should first address the things that have changed the climate in the couple centuries since they were invented, and then tackle the stuff that took 5000 years.
For sure. The early anthropocene basically just delayed the onset of the next ice age. The modern anthropocene is ending the entire ice age paradigm and sending us back to the hothouse earth that we had 50 million years ago.