Robert takes a certain delight in adding his voice to the chorus questioning the Southern Leaf Blight metanarrative:
Isn’t it remarkable that this is the only (well-known?) incident of this nature in recent history? And that it only was an incident that cannot even be detected on the yield charts? Are the levels of diversity that we are maintaining in the fields perhaps sufficient?
What’s next for the chopping block? Potato blight and the Irish famine?