What is the impact of non-food agriculture (i.e. corn for ethanol, marijuana, cotton, etc. on the growth of our species? I would think that this would be a step in the right direction in that it does not contribute to actually making new humans.

Interesting idea. Increasing non-food agriculture wouldn’t contribute to
making new humans, but it WOULD attack biodiversity—in exactly the same way that increasing food agriculture does by taking more and more resources away from nonhuman species.

DATE: 27 Mar 1998
UPDATE: 27 Mar 1998
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