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Podcast: Learning With Lowell
Episode: Citrus Disease Destroyed Billions of Dollars of Citrus over 10 years; A Quick Story with 2 Experts -81
Description: 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...