The little devils! Probably an ag terrorism attack, like the Chinese seeds that threaten our existence lol lol after all at the most base of our existence lies “aquaponics” and therefore life in seas is the point, here. Not that life in some form can’t exist in atmospheres, or deep space, those cultures are probably farmed as well. It’s understood our universe is based upon eating, other life, and using it. No body really asked to be here. But escaping this cycle of insanity, purposeless endless infinite yet ridiculous waste of time and resources. May be that life forms use our sun and emerge impossibly from its interior in a yet to be perceived manner. Maybe life is atmospheric also and then again dimensions may bring us things we can never understand, lifeforms I imagined, or ones never thought up. Arbitrarily assigning our current form to represent intelligence in our universe seems just a bit premature…
Whenever you create a monoculture as large as the orange businesss (wherever), you create an environmental problem. When EVER. Elm trees in every northern city… Rare palms in the more expensive sections of town (FL). And, in the case of Florida (I did environmental impact statements for Boca Raton developments in the early 80’s) when you completely muck up an existing ecosystem, especially one as fragile as ALL of Florida, you will create problems. Mind you, South Florida is the consequence of very recent development- 1900 on. Had to dredge the place after they got the train to Miami.
Then there is the aquifer.
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I thank Mr. Flagler for a/c more than rr. Was in Perine in 87, loved that place, even though it was already full of Oscars in the canals, Austrailian pines and Crocks. Fished the Keys and shrimped Card Sound Bridge. It’s probably much worse now. I’m glad to have the memory.
In 1983, I sadly watched a roseate spoonbill in a newly dug canal. intended to drain the area south of Fort Lauderdale.
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When I moved to south Texas ten years ago, the “greening disease” was not officially here.
There were orange, lime and grapefruit trees throughout the Rio Grande Valley that produced beautiful tasty fruit.
Ten years later all the trees are infected, no longer produce the tasty fruits they once did, and many have died or were so disease ridden they were removed. Riding the back roads with trees everywhere is gone. Sad.
I guarantee you that those were poisoned more than diseased. Texas is a battle zone.
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You are SO right about industrial-scale monoculture! Agriculture is one of too many critical systems we’ve got in today’s world that are dangerously fragile. The long-distance, just-in-time supply chain is another example. Muck up one or two little parts, and the whole thing can fall apart. (I can just see Baal Gates coming along and infesting all of Florida with some flying GMO monstrosity to “cure” this problem… Heaven forbid!!)
I hope at least some parts of American can get back to small, local farms, growing regional food, and more local manufacturing, with shorter supply chains.
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There were quite a times over the years I saw sky contrails. Haven’t seen any lately. Sky is either cloudless or overcast.