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Regardless of what is natural or has occurred before, reduction of biodiversity is dangerous to our own safety as a species - monocultures are more easily wiped
by manifestsilence 12y ago
Regardless of what is natural or has occurred before, reduction of biodiversity is dangerous to our own safety as a species - monocultures are more easily wiped out. If there were a terrible cow virus, we might be thankful to have emus around for example.
Edit: and far more pertinent, particularly in the American Midwest, is our reliance on large quantities of single strains of corn...
- gizmo686 12y agoHopefully our seed vaults, and cataloging DNA of species before they die off, will let us re-introduce biodiversity into our agriculture. Of course, I doubt we will attempt to do so until after the first monoculture collapse, but that is a (relativly) short term catastraphy.
- maxerickson 12y agoDessert bananas aren't a super important food, but the first monoculture collapse arguably already happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana