Dan Abel > wrote in
:

> Everything was killed, and nothing could possibly grow there.
> Various biologists predicted that those areas would stay
> sterile for a very long time. It didn't take nearly as long
> as thought for birds to bring in spores and seeds to start
> things growing.

Active volcanoes exist in places where there is agriculture. And
this has been going on for millions of years really. Volcanic
eruptions are part of local ecosystems, even though they appear
devastating to the human eye.

The problem is that right now, most of the world is only 10% or
less (a lot of less) arable land. Desertification was identified
as a critical issue decades before global warming was identified as
the culprit. No one has mentioned any instance of arablification,
to coin a word, whereby arable land spontaneously arises from
muskeg and rocks. Why? Because that does NOT happen.

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that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy
without condition, and then admit that we just don’t
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