Getting people off meat would eliminate the lion's share of the problems with our industrial agricultural system. Again, it's not a technology problem, we could

Getting people off meat would eliminate the lion's share of the problems with our industrial agricultural system. Again, it's not a technology problem, we could stop eating meat this afternoon if everyone was onboard, instead of waiting for some fantastic new technology to come around. I'm not against new technology, but deferring responsibility to breakthroughs that may or may not arrive in time strikes me as another form of bikeshedding. I've been hearing about the electric vehicle revolution for a quarter century, it has yet to arrive in any meaningful capacity. Throughout our history our biggest problems have been problems related to scarcity, so we're hardwired to think in those terms. Even though our problems are now problems of abundance, the default is to think that to solve this we need more of something. More technology! Build more factories, more steel, more lithium, more cobalt, we need a whole new industrial ecosystem to replace the one we've got! We're really good at managing scarcity. We're clueless about managing abundance. Of course, nobody likes the idea of less, it violates all our best instincts. Humans are highly adaptable, but we rarely adapt willingly if it's perceived to be a step down. That's the moral problem of our age, in my opinion.