> It is difficult for me to imagine anyone arguing that replacing diverse
> ecosystems such as the tallgrass prairie or the Central American rainforest
> with monocrops of corn or oranges is an ecological improvement.
>

Maybe not for us but would be for the people living there.They are a part
of the ecology.

We in the US do not seem to have a problem with clearing land for food, but
object to the same thing in poor countries. There is a very real double
standard when it comes to what we do compared to what we want others to do.

We can remedy that by allowing all our farmland to revert to grassland and
starve.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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