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Maybe there's a transitional hybrid solution. The Prius of agriculture? And surely if you're not destroying the soil with every crop, you're going to need less fertilizer, right? Maybe the basic model is flawed, by not accounting for this fact, but I'm not smart enough to see whether it is or not.
The thing that strikes me most is that modeling like this views the whole thing as a system, but in reality it doesn't really function like one. Not an efficient, well-thought-out one anyway. I wonder what happens if the model is re-worked to create several diversified food microsystems instead of devoting huge swaths of land to growing wheat for the world. I agree; I'd like to hear from more experts about how to make this work - and soon.