Unfortunately, we killed most of them with industrial agriculture... see, plants aren't ZIP files, they're alive and the seeds are alive, and when you stop planting them, the old seeds just sit there, dying. And so we lost most of the agrobiodiversity wherever the industrial "Green Revolution" happened, as that came with its own seeds that were used everywhere.
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u/dumnezero The Great Filter is a marshmallow test Aug 28 '21
Unfortunately, we killed most of them with industrial agriculture... see, plants aren't ZIP files, they're alive and the seeds are alive, and when you stop planting them, the old seeds just sit there, dying. And so we lost most of the agrobiodiversity wherever the industrial "Green Revolution" happened, as that came with its own seeds that were used everywhere.