food related
And spread by Global Warming, right?
Can’t be too bad if those who know about it are waiting three months to get together and discuss it.
First the bees! Then the wheat!
Why I heard at the top of the 1:00p.m. hour that the stock market had fallen due to profit taking. I looked and it was a less than 4 pt drop, but it led the news on radio.
Once again it’s a problem originating somewhere outside the United States. So why are we importing so much food here ???
I guess the plant genetics types had best get to work and solve this problem like they have solved many similar problems over the past several hundred years.
No Blade of Gress - John Christopher 1956.
When the virus first strikes the planet, it strikes only one variety of grass: rice. The hardest hit country is China, where unmistakable government dogma outlaw poverty and famine as if the very elements of nature are subject to human decree. The Chinese government thus has to choose between two unpalatable options: admitting that its official policies are unworkable because they do not reflect environmental factors, or letting its citizens starve to death. As a sign of the contemporary views of Chinese communism, Christopher’s China stands by the decree and their people die in the millions as nature overrules the petty commands of government.
In England, the informed citizens discuss the situation in China, decrying its shortsightedness and inflexibility, but as something far away that is unlikely to affect them in their civilized world. Rice, after all, is hardly a staple in the West, and capitalistic governments are far more sensible than Mao’s China.
It spreads to the rest of the world. No spoiler, but potatoes are an important plot point.
Came out long before King’s “The Stand”. Good read with strong characters.
” The threat will be discussed Aug. 1 in San Diego during a joint meeting of The American Phytopathological Society and the Society of Nematologists.”
I wonder if they are bringing samples...