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A great presentation, but he has omitted a huge area where improvements can be made, if not necessarily directly through software; agriculture. A large factor
by jacknews 8y ago
A great presentation, but he has omitted a huge area where improvements can be made, if not necessarily directly through software; agriculture.
A large factor in the current ecological crisis is our agricultural footprint, and I think there is a lot of scope to innovate there.
For example one of his sidebar statistics shows that fully 50% of US land is devoted to agriculture. That seems huge, and something to be addressed in itself. I think we should be aiming to return land to nature as far as possible.
Growing rice on floating platforms at sea? Lab meat? underground or tall-tower hydroponic salad farms? Etc, etc.