Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
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Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#2billions in losses used to sound like a big number, ah the good old days
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#3Get used to it, this will become much more common with climate change. Insect and diseases infestation and ecosystem collapse will be a weekly thing before you know it.
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#4Get used to it, this will become much more common with climate change. Insect and diseases infestation and ecosystem collapse will be a weekly thing before you know it.
I'm not sure climate change bears more blame than agricultural systems that incentivize monocultures fragile in the face of external stresses. Climate change is only one such stress. Crop diseases are as old as agriculture.
And really, agricultural collapse is quite separate from ecosystem collapse; agriculture is many ways defined by the intentional absence of ecosystem.
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#5Get used to it, this will become much more common with climate change. Insect and diseases infestation and ecosystem collapse will be a weekly thing before you know it.
I think it has much more to do with monocropping than with climate change. There are lots of other examples with different crops long before the effects of climate change were noticeable.
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#6Get used to it, this will become much more common with climate change. Insect and diseases infestation and ecosystem collapse will be a weekly thing before you know it.
I think it has much more to do with monocropping than with climate change. There are lots of other examples with different crops long before the effects of climate change were noticeable.
Yeah, this seems to be similar to what is happening to the banana.
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#7Get used to it, this will become much more common with climate change. Insect and diseases infestation and ecosystem collapse will be a weekly thing before you know it.
Oh right. Never happened before. Disease is a new thing folks /s
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#8Maximally efficient is minimally robust.
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#9Get used to it, this will become much more common with climate change. Insect and diseases infestation and ecosystem collapse will be a weekly thing before you know it.
What does this have to do with climate change?
Re: Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
#10Maximally efficient is minimally robust.
This is so obviously false. Counterexample: Robusta Coffee.