fertilizer

Monocropping damaging the soil is an observable problem (and is nitrogen fertilizer and Roundup a solution?).

You also need to consider the energy required to produce the fertilizer/pesticides, transport the ethanol, etc.

Before they had oil two of their major exports was artificial fertilizer and later aluminium.

Just like farming, there are many steps: tilling the earth, burying the seed, giving it water and fertilizer.

However, I buy them when I can primarily because of my concerns with pesticide and fertilizer overuse.

Plants need only water and reused plant material or any other natural fertilizer.

That's not counting the cost of the rest of the installation, fertilizer etc.

Small, organic, polyculture farms reduce or eliminate the need to transport food over long distances, import fertilizer, use pesticides.

I doubt this research would be funded by Monsanto or other companies which sell artificial fertilizer.

Natural fertilizer is how our ecosystems were made to be so productive.

He also saves money by not having to buy fertilizer or pesticides.

Here in the US fertilizer manufacturers need somewhere to dump their flouride byproducts, so we have it in the water.

We have apple trees in the back yard, which we grow without pesticides or fertilizer, and the results are "okay".

Off the top of my head, a few resources which have been exhausted: ⚫ Guano (fertilizer) ⚫ Forests, generally, in Lebanon ("the cedars of Lebanon"), Greece, Italy, Europe, England.

Sure, you can think "wow if I blew this place up it'd really mess things up here", but if you think that and then set out to buy fertilizer and an suv, that's obviously a lot more actionable than a "thought crime".