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| Author: | Davis, W. |
| Title: | The rubber industry's biological nightmare |
| Journal: | Fortune
1997 : AUG, 136:3, p. 32-39 |
| Index terms: | RUBBER INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE INVESTMENTS PROFIT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | For rubber industry, it is an open secret that the South American leaf blight, a fungal pestilence so virulent as to have thwarted all efforts to cultivate rubber in it's native Amazonian homeland, could wipe out the world's supply of natural rubber. The world still moves on natural rubber: without it airplanes cannot land safely for example. The world has endured this "AIDS of the rubber industry" once before, and forgotten it. Of the dozens of synthetic rubbers that have been since developed, only one comes close to replicating the complex polymer created by the nature. If rubber trees in Asia start to die, history would repeat itself. |
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