Is it a strawman though? It's all tied together, the fixation with using our technological prowess to increase yield at all costs leads to these types of solutions: monocultures, GMO crops, weather engineering. Even though our understanding of the "solutions" is many times ridiculously poor. But it seems to work... somehow... for now. And by "work", what's meant is that it maximizes a metric which is ultimally chosen to maximize the wealth of an economic agent. It's what got us into this climatic bind. We need to take a step back and look at the root of the problem.
Yes. Correct. Thank you @evgen. Brazil == soybeans mostly. Those slashed rainforest acres are being chopped with safrinha corn in mind. Those statements by the parent are an easy filter to someone not knowledgeable
