[spiderfarmer]

There's also an enormous waste of resources. In my small delta country (the Netherlands) an acre of soil could yield in some cases 5000 times the amount of crops when compared to barren regions like Afghanistan, with (due to automation) very little effort. There's plenty of water, perfect temperatures and very vertile soil. It's not a coincidence that the Netherlands is the worlds #2 agricultural exporter. But there's an enormous lobby to convert more and more acres back to unmanaged nature.

In the grand scheme of things this is beyond stupid, but when you're living here you might enjoy a walk through a nature reserve better than a walk through fields full of corn.