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Paul,
The pictures are impressive, but I am not completely reassured that
there is not a reduction in pollinator diversity (not to mention other
biodiversity) in monoculture environments, by some pictures of a couple of
species of migratory butterflies on the edges of vast fields of corn and
soy beans. I wouldn't be so ready to assume that because other life has
been discovered on a planet where previously only corn and soy beans were
thought to exist, that this is an example of a perfectly healthy and
diverse section of the biosphere.
Of course if you look at it strictly through the lense of the benefits
of producing huge quantities of corn and soy beans cheaply, then you might
see it as an over all healthy environment, but I suggest that a complete
and objective view of all the factors involved might result in a less
favorable opinion of the current state of corn and soy bean monoculture as
it relates to the environment.
Books have been written explaining why we should be concerned if not
alarmed by a significant reduction in biodiversity on the planet. This
probably isn't the place to go into all that, but I would hope that you
would at least familiarize yourself with the reasoning that is involved if
you haven't already.
Steve Noble
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