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Sounds a lot like modern agriculture. What’s the difference?

• odyssey7 7y ago
  Interesting. I guess both can make a location uninhabitable for native species. This one is ironic because the plant being both cultivated and harmed by the agriculture could be the native species itself. Another difference is that with most farming there's an incentive to add things back to the soil and rotate crops, since you want the soil to keep working for you. In this case, there's no incentive to add nickel back to the soil, since extracting that element is the goal. And nature's ability to replenish the nickel is limited.