Growing meat in a lab or dispersing an enzyme that'll eat all that bad plastic in the oceans will ultimately take far less resources than what we have going on right now as the status quo.
Scientists have been predicting doomsday scenarios for overpopulation and food shortages for decades. In the 70's they said we'd all be dead by 2000. And they had plenty of data to work with....yet they were completely wrong. I don't take today's data at face value because I see the innovation taking place elsewhere that solves the problem: all it takes is a little cost optimization and corporations + governments will eat that **** up. Hence my comments that solving these problems is an inevitability, not a pipe dream.
Doesn't happen often, but I agree with elphenor. The overpopulation fearmongering is an excuse to sit around and throw up your hands. Human society will hit the singularity this century without breaking a sweat.
Last edited by Anteater; 06-03-2018 at 08:40 AM.
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