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Generally we believe that Malthusianism is now in the trash heap of mistaken ideas. A lot of people miss that even today close to a billion people are starving

Generally we believe that Malthusianism is now in the trash heap of mistaken ideas. A lot of people miss that even today close to a billion people are starving and close to half the world population doesn’t get all the nutrients they need for a normal life expectancy. And ecology is already at the brink of collapse. As people around the world adopt more “first world” eating habits I doubt much of the earth will be left. We may have to manage the entire ecosystem at some point and use robots to pollinate our plants. The earth will go from being an ecosystem to being a hotel for humans.

lm28469 6y ago
> We may have to manage the entire ecosystem at some point and use robots to pollinate our plants. The earth will go from being an ecosystem to being a hotel for humans. I bet we don't understand even one fifth of every interactions going on between animals and plants, deep ocean currents, high altitude winds, &c. everything is interconnected, we might be the smartest apes on earth but we're faaaaar away from being able to use our tech to counter balance the damage we already dealt. All we're able to detect are visible symptoms far too late to even act on them, we might be missing deep changes and we won't know before it's too late This book kinda touches the subject: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/26/the-hidden-life-of-trees-peter-wohlleben/ https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/26/the-hidden-life-of-...
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