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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

It’s expensive because urbanization, climate change, and citrus greening disease. We’re getting rid of farmland with sprawl, climate change is worsening storms and cold snaps that damage crops, and citrus greening disease is slowly killing the survivors.