Comments by "Hiyuke La Vie" (@hiyukelavie2396) on "DW Planet A"
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Dumb video
Because rice produces much more food per land usage compared to most other major crops, except corn and potatoes
In the case of potatoes, it can only be stored for a few weeks, compared to rice which can be stored for years, so in terms of feeding a large population, rice is still easily the better choice over potatoes
But what really puts rice ahead is when you also take into account that flooded rice farms are normally also used to farm fish and crustaceans, providing even more food, so the total food yield per land usage of rice farming EASILY beats every major crop humans have
So instead of making a video to nitpick on rice, this channel should produce videos to educate people on the advantages of farming rice over other crops, so that people can switch over to rice and help humans make better use of agricultural land, because climate change and all that
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@CaptainVita "Highways only need a couple meters on each side"
Uhm, wrong. So very, very wrong. Look up images of the autobahn in Germany and see what's on either side of them. Do you really think it looked like that in their natural state? No, don't be naive. Large swathes of land were cleared. They then replanted some grass or decorative trees to fill up the empty space. You can't have a freaking jungle teeming with wildlife just a few meters away from a highway. It's a stupidly dangerous hazard. There are codes and regulations for these things. In Malaysia's case, instead of replanting the empty land on both sides of the highway with functionless, decorative trees, they replanted them with oil palm. It's a much more intelligent usage of existing land
Again, no one said that no forest was cleared for oil palm. How do you think cash crops work? Do you think they just magically sprung up in the middle of a pristine forest? You sweet, sweet summer child. Show me any example of industrial crops being grown without any land being cleared. Maybe in this fantasy world in your mind it exists. The point here is HOW land is being cleared. Indonesia, being impatient and greedy, went for the cheapest method available, the slash and burn method. Cheap and quick, but environmentally disastrous
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