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"Big Carb" is what allowed human population to grow to billions.
by adrianN 5y ago
"Big Carb" is what allowed human population to grow to billions.
- Bancakes 5y agoOkay, and you can argue we were naturally never supposed to be in the billions. You can argue if global warming wipes out our farms, we can only blame ourselves, and demographic crashes are a given, not a crysis.
- adrianN 5y agoI'm not particularly religious, so I don't know about "supposed to be", but I see no ethical way of significantly reducing human population quickly enough for it to matter for climate change. It is much easier to change our behavior to reduce environmental impact. Switching everyone to a carnivore diet to spite "Big Carb" is certainly not the right direction.
- Bancakes 5y agoI'm not suggesting a change in diet at all, I'll continue to be omnivore as will my kids. This will lead to catastrophe but that's life.
- imtringued 5y agoThere were two billion humans on the planet before "big carb". People used to eat things like butter without fear of cholesterol and they didn't even suffer the heart attacks that avoiding cholesterol was supposed to prevent.
- adrianN 5y agoHumans have been getting most of their calories from grains essentially since we invented agriculture, thousands of years before the population reached even one billion.