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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 01:46 PM EDT |
Whatever method you use, once things are widely exposed to it, you create
evolutionary pressure on them to become resistant -- because there's a big
Darwinian advantage to do so, and the bugs all evolve a lot faster than we do.
The same thing is actually happening in computer security -- to the point where
"social engineering" and "spearphishing" have become the
most effective methods of being a pest, because other methods are slowly being
locked out.
Since we have acheived at least temporary high agricultural productivity, we
have at least temporarily defeated both Darwin and Thomas Malthus as a species.
The question is if we can sustain it or not, or whether the population will be
forcibly reduced by a reduction in the food supply. I have no good answers.
(Christenson)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 08:13 PM EDT |
Glyphosate resistance is not completely new; Monsanto found about half a dozen
weeds with glyphosate-resistant strains at least 20 years ago, and copied genes
from one species with the proper mutation into any crop they could.
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