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Crop rotation has been used for most of the history of sedentary civilizations. Monoculture was used mostly in very early civilizations, and recently in the modern times (since oil-based fertilizers have made crop rotation less important in some ways).

Monocrop agriculture is certainly not meaningful here. Agriculture is, maybe.




> oil-based fertilizers

Which fertilizers are those? I was under the impression that nitrogen fertilizers were by far the most important. We get the nitrogen from the sea of it that we're swimming in -- no need to dig it out of the ground. The Haber process also uses hydrogen, which probably comes from WGSR, is that what you mean? If so, I strongly suspect that fertilizer production necessary for human survival would easily be economical on electrolytic hydrogen.


ammonium nitrate for instance is frequently (typically?) manufactured as a petrochemical


Hydrogen is for the most part produced from natural gas through steam reforming (only a small fraction is produced through electrolysis). And the Haber-Bosch method requires substantial heating which is also usually supplied by burning oil or gas based fuels.




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