I don't see anything about SALB (South American leaf blight) which has still kept South America from large scale rubber production. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go

I don't see anything about SALB (South American leaf blight) which has still kept South America from large scale rubber production. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759241/ Kal Penn has an 8-part series on the world economy, one episode of which highlights what a disaster if would be if this disease ever spread to Southeast Asia. Alarmist? Maybe, I don't know. I know that there don't appear to be any direct flights from Rio to Bangkok, although I didn't look all that hard.