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culitoday at 8:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Seeing California's central valley in the bottom 3% is honestly depressing. What should have one of the world's most fascinating soil ecology has been degraded by over a century of intensive agriculture and practices that are downright hostile to any living soil


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cwmooretoday at 8:58 PM

Isn't it more in line with what would be the natural climate's non-irrigated state? Low density in deserts everywhere else, and super high in eg. Eastern Kansas which is far from untouched by industrial agriculture.