Accelerating biological processes makes them disposable and short-lived

Evidence

In agriculture there have been several cases in which the natural speed limits of biological processes, for example, the egg laying of hens, were successfully augmented by shortening the daily alternation of light and dark to twenty-three hours using artificial lights. The same is true of growth processes through the use of breeding: trees planted using the so-called tall spindle system, for instance, bear fruit after only four to five years while conventional tree varieties need fifteen or more years for this. However, they also become fruitless in a shorter period of time. They are, in a certain way, disposable trees. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 270

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: ‘Disposable trees’ that fruit in four years and die young precisely illustrates the ADDENDUM piece on trees as infrastructure and how treated-as-infrastructure trees are bred for speed.
• STORYSTEM: A society that breeds only fast-lived disposable trees loses the slow-growing long-lived ones that anchor memory — a ready-made speculative or realist narrative hinge.
• XREF: connects to: Even daylight cycles can be accelerated, but at the price of disposability; Acceleration generates institutions that then block further speed and get destroyed — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 299

Broader Connections

• Even daylight cycles can be accelerated, but at the price of disposability #exemplifies (0.95)
• Acceleration generates institutions that then block further speed and get destroyed #epitomizes (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 299