07-06-2016, 01:07 AM
The transcontinental transport of soil and infected plants got us into this mess by giving obscure plant pathogens rides across oceans on jet planes.
Modern GMO technology can fix it. Instead of abandoned, weed filled papaya fields, we have a thriving GMO papaya export industry here. Obviously, many if not most people here would prefer abandoned, weed filled fields and idle farm workers collecting benefits. Thriving GMO papaya fields have even been attacked by chainsaws at night. When people have an easy life, with the assumption that someone else will always provide for them, they attack solutions to problems as 'ideologically unacceptable'.
When the only solution is held up as an ideological bogyman, your only option is to sit and watch disaster unfold. You can only have so many simultaneously unfolding disasters with 'ideologically unacceptable' solutions before your whole world collapses people.
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You can't fix Samsara.
Modern GMO technology can fix it. Instead of abandoned, weed filled papaya fields, we have a thriving GMO papaya export industry here. Obviously, many if not most people here would prefer abandoned, weed filled fields and idle farm workers collecting benefits. Thriving GMO papaya fields have even been attacked by chainsaws at night. When people have an easy life, with the assumption that someone else will always provide for them, they attack solutions to problems as 'ideologically unacceptable'.
When the only solution is held up as an ideological bogyman, your only option is to sit and watch disaster unfold. You can only have so many simultaneously unfolding disasters with 'ideologically unacceptable' solutions before your whole world collapses people.
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You can't fix Samsara.