The connection wasn't meant to be strictly GMO,rather industrial agriculture that pushed out tall grass prairie beginning in the late 1800s. This is about severe habitat fragmentation. The GMO as...
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Am I missing something? Was Iowa farmland a wealth of biodiversity in pre-GMO days? Seems I remember the fields have been largely corn/soy homogenous for quite a few years stretching beyond signi...
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Can we feed 10 billion people without GMO foods? If not, then the choice between famine and biodiversity will be dictated by Malthusian economics. I have the luxury of living in the West and bein...
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Great story. I think that drive to protect biodiversity is a need to have something wild and untamed around us. Something beyond our control, perhaps some vestige of our own wild nature. I think ...
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People used to understand this thing that E.O. Wilson said. No wonder he was so sad about it. When I was doing fieldwork among the horticultural Bwaba in Burkina Faso, their economy relied on a s...
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