Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Two Bit da Vinci" channel.

  1. ​​ If we look at an apple from chemistry and physics, as biological and ecological perspectives, eating the apple is only one brick in a Lego model of the planet Earth at life size. Your own DNA includes contributions from bacteria, and we still don't know all the interactions between plants and the environment, nevermind human epigenetics. That's why for instance, the world production of cocoa is in danger because of its industrialised monoculture production framework produces pests and diseases that are highly adapted to and effective in attacking cocoa trees, a crop that has been grown commercially for centuries. Nature experiments far more effectively than humans ever can, and keeping up with a extremely complex system of which we are part of, but can never fully control, means we are always playing catch up with Nature. And because of our limitations in the financial sphere, we are now unlikely to be able to afford such follies as vertical farms in the future. That's why Bill Gates and his ilk are buying farmland across the planet.
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