Keep in mind that the book is so old, I cannot even find it online. It was published in a “Classic Science Fiction” edition when I was a kid.
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Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months agoYeah that’s totally unrealistic, in a biodiversity ecosystem, the varus shouldn’t be able to propagate wildly, I mean, for that to happen you would have to have planted vast areas of monoculture crops, all with the same or similar genetic traits, without many buffer zones, and a depleted soil full of biologically inert chemical fertilisers, devoid of a healthy and resilient soil microbiome… oh… oh no…
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Palerider@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I believe the book you are talking about is "The Death Of Grass’.
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Figured that would be Nancy Reagan’s autobiography.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Brand new idea, you say? Let me get my writing fingers on.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fun fact, this is happening with Bananas. The only way they can contain it is by annihilating entire fields.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fun! Fun, fun, fun. Fun.
moistclump@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cool cool cool cool cool. Cool.
aegis_sum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
True, but all bananas are clones and have almost no genetic diversity and are all susceptible to the same diseases.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So are many of our food cash crops.