oh no
Not only are we facing peak oil, but peak banana.
(Hat tip to Joan at http://joanium.blogspot.com for the depressing news.)
A fungus is killing them all, because they are grown as a monoculture and bananas everywhere are all the same variety. This will screw over the countries whose main export is bananas, and possibly the people who depend on the related food plantain as their staple.
Modern agriculture fails again.
Gah.
(Hat tip to Joan at http://joanium.blogspot.com for the depressing news.)
A fungus is killing them all, because they are grown as a monoculture and bananas everywhere are all the same variety. This will screw over the countries whose main export is bananas, and possibly the people who depend on the related food plantain as their staple.
Modern agriculture fails again.
Gah.