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Large homogeneous populations are a risk to society

Another aspect is that such large homogeneous populations are dangerous to society. The Irish learned this the hard way when their potato crop was destroyed by a fungus, causing the 1845 ”Potato Famine” and killing more than a million people (about 10% of the population). In a large homogeneous population, all individuals share the same vulnerabilities. Find one vulnerability and you can annihilate the whole population. Since then, we, as a society, have learned our lesson. Or have we?

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