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No, artificial meat is not. Always looking for solutions to the symptoms of the root cause, which is feeding overpopulation. We don't expect to hit a human ca
by headsoup 5y ago
No, artificial meat is not. Always looking for solutions to the symptoms of the root cause, which is feeding overpopulation.
We don't expect to hit a human carrying capacity, we expect to 'solve' that problem with technology and clever thinking and live anywhere we like forever.
What happens when everyone's eating fake meat, but we've added another few billion people and we need more and more? Bigger factories, larger crops, wider distribution. Then that's the 'problem' and we need a new wonder thing.
Fake meat and all these other engineered solutions (along with large scale monoculture and livestock industries) ignore and completely misunderstand the complexities and resources of the natural world. The ecosystems of soil, insects, plants, climate etc interacting and evolving. We think we're smarter than that and can do better with simple solutions to complex problems, so here we are arguing about not-meat.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago> We don't expect to hit a human carrying capacity, we expect to 'solve' that problem with technology and clever thinking and live anywhere we like forever. Yeah, that's more-less the whole point of technology, and civilization. The alternative is to pack up and go back to living in caves. Complex systems are there to be studied and managed with intelligent solutions. Not to scare us into trowing our hands up in the air and giving up.
- headsoup 5y agoMy point is not going about going backwards, it's realising there isn't infinite growth that we just need to solve for