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A single-species or single-crop system that looks efficient to planners but is fragile compared with diverse organic systems.
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monoculture
A single-species or single-crop system that looks efficient to planners but is fragile compared with diverse organic systems.
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Jiang says state simplification destroys resilience: monoculture forests and top-down farming look efficient but become fragile under disease, drought, weather, or crisis.
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"...is resilient because it's diverse. Okay? So, that's what Scott says. Monocultures are, as a rule, more fragile and hence more vulnerable to the..."
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"Some parts of the forest can die, but the rest of the forest will recover from anything, whether it's disease, or drought, or weather...."
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"Okay? And of course, you can imagine that this will lead to starvation, because it's the same principle as the forest. If there's a..."
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