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I'm going to plug a charity here, Allfed, working to develop technologies to let us survive the loss of conventional agriculture for a period of years by workin
by Symmetry 6y ago
I'm going to plug a charity here, Allfed, working to develop technologies to let us survive the loss of conventional agriculture for a period of years by working out efficient and economical ways to convert things like, e.g., dead trees into digestible calories and the plans to deploy them in the event of a large volcanic interruption or asteroid strike or nuclear exchange.
https://allfed.info/ https://allfed.info/
- mleonhard 6y agoThanks for sharing this. Allfed is doing important work.
- dcolkitt 6y agoThat's very interesting. But if we're talking about O(10 years), isn't a more foolproof and probably cheaper plan just to stockpile dried and canned food?
- ddenkenberger 6y agoThanks! I'm the director of ALLFED. dcolkitt, if we knew we had 10 years, it would be possible to store up 10 years worth of food. However, the catastrophe could come sooner, it would cost tens of trillions of dollars, and it would inflate the price of food significantly, exacerbating current malnutrition. Whereas getting prepared to scale up alternative foods quickly would only cost around $100 million: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13753-016-0097-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13753-016-0...