Hipster Luddites
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Degradation of Cotton
If human beings disappeared tomorrow, how many of the crops that we grow for textiles could survive in a natural environment? Right. I mean, because like clearly these poor moths at this point, you know, once the humans go, they're going to miss the opportunity to be boiled as that's the end of their line. Right. So I assume that the kind of cotton that agro business produces today probably couldn't survive without pesticides and special treatments - but it would out competed by wild stuff. But what you would have is not a disappearance of cotton, but a gradual degradation of cotton. right.
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