Citrus Disease Destroyed Billions of Dollars of Citrus over 10 years; A Quick Story with 2 Experts -81
- March 19, 2019
- Tagged as: biotech, biotechnology, California, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Citrus Greening, deep tech, Elizabeth E. Grafton-Cardwell, Florida, HLB, Huánglóngbìng, learning podcast, learning with lowell, long form interview podcast, Lowell Thompson, science long form podcast, science podcast, Space, Victoria Hornbaker
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The destruction of crops, billions of dollars in damages, and no hope in sight. It’s a good thing this is just a movie, set in the far future. We should have plenty of time to ensure it won’t happen to us. Should being the operative word if we lived in a perfect world. But it’s not a perfect world. While the futuristic blight in Interstellar is fictional, we have already been facing our own blight in the United States for almost ten years. This is the story of Citrus Greening, which has been rocking the citrus (i.e. oranges, lemons, etc…) industry for nearly a decade
