Status Updates From Never Out of Season: How Ha...

While the Green Revolution in the 1960s vastly increased the amount of food available and averted famine in several regions of the planet, it also polluted water and increased soil erosion. The answer to that: genetic modification of crops with a bacteria that made pesticides unnecessary...until the pests caught up!

Did you know that agroterrorism was a thing? Brazil's cacao plantations, once the world's 2nd largest producer of coco beans, were completely destroyed by purposeful release of a pathogen.

But there are success stories, too! The all-important cassava plant, and millions of African lives, were saved by finding a predator for the mealybug which was destroying the plant wholesale.

I'd heard of the Irish Potato Famine of 1845, of course, but I'd never read the details. OMG! That's the Apocalypse if anything ever was!

Maybe I shouldn't read stuff like this because while I think science is very important, I also think the scientific community are a bunch of grade-A asshats. And the Potato Famine just puts that notion in neon letters.

The pace is picking up. The sentences are still not to the point. I notice some sarcasm which is hard in books when you dont have enough context

It is hard to focus. Some of the sentences need to be reread a few times to understand. A lot of the sentences will not stand alone and require the information of a previous sentence which makes it hard to put down and pick back up.

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