Agribusiness Versus Public Health: Black Plague 2.0
摘要
Current ‘economies of scale’ in global agribusinessAgribusiness—across space, time, genetics and organizational structure—constitute an insurmountable barrier to public health efforts at control of pandemic disease. A relatively elementary model of noise-induced stabilization suggests that sufficient and properly designed and monitored disruption of global agricartels—breakup—would act as a de-facto sterilizing temperature to prevent pathogen emergence. — McMichael (2012). — Mourkas et al. (2020). — Elizabeth Bishop (1983).