Large-scale industrial agriculture depends on getting rid of natural diversity. But as the recent emergence of herbicide-tolerant weeds on U.S. farms has shown, nature ultimately finds a way to reassert itself.
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Excellent article on the topic of uniformity and diversity in nature and agricultural policies. Works also for antibiotics, economics, and other subjects were uniformity is killing our future.