Unfortunately, many will suffer needlessly in the interim. As University of California agricultural economist David Zilberman and his colleagues have written, the lost benefits are “irreversible, both in the sense that past harvests have been lower than they would have been if the technology had been introduced and in the sense that yield growth is a cumulative process of which the onset has been delayed.”
不幸的是，在此期间很多人会受到无谓的伤害。加州大学农业经济学家齐尔伯曼（David Zilberman）和他的同事指出，损失的好处是“不可挽回的，因为如果该技术早已引入，那么过去的收成就会比当时高；而收成增长是一个累积过程，现在相当于初始累积被延后了。”