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NEVER let the anti-environmentalist narrative on “corporations polluting is none of your business” thrive.
Not exactly “live and let live” if we have to accept being collateral damage in the process.
I happen to consider being socially murdered by capitalists destroying the environment very much my business 
Most Store bought vegetables taste incredibly bland, it's like they've sucked anything good out of them and now you're telling me there's actually less nutrients in them too?
Fantastic, life is plastic.
I don't know when I last heard anyone talking about CO2 concentration, sounds really quiet bad that we are basically doubling the CO2 concentration.
From shit that I was reading when it came up because of covid masking it's already to the point that there should be noticeable cognitive effects in everyone even <500ppm
If sitting in a "normally ventilated office" results in a ~1000ppm bubble of CO2 (bad) around you at a lower baseline for atmospheric CO2 then it's going to be even higher as that baseline increases
Seems bad
Outer Worlds 3 gonna be set on earth
Supercalirificcarbonextraleaddelicious
wow. syllabically correct. props.
yeah but I misspelled calorific. That is now corrected.
although crop yields increase, they become less nutrient-dense. While zinc levels in particular drop, lead levels increase
“Co2 Is PlAnT fOoD!” 
Fuuuuck right when I'm cutting of course
FWIW caloric information is less accurate than it seems, but precision is more important.
If you’re consistently incorrect in the right direction, it’s just as good as being correct.
yeah when i was doing a spreadsheet i made sure all the systematic error was slightly overestimating in and underestimating out and it was quite effective.
I started doing 5:2 fasting
600 calories / day then baseline calories the other days. I don't even track what I eat on the days I'm not eating 600 calories and tbh I feel great.
I think there's also a connection to produce size and nutritional density. Seems like plants don't actually generate/take up more nutrients to produce larger fruits. Rather, the added weight is mostly water and, apparently, sugars/carbs. I know next to nothing of horticulture so huge grain of salt to everything I say but if CO2 plays a fundamental role in a plant's storage of energy as sugars then yeah this all tracks.