> Technological solutions are far more realistic This could easily be solved by removing animal ag subsidies and with taxing of negative externalities. That's

> Technological solutions are far more realistic This could easily be solved by removing animal ag subsidies and with taxing of negative externalities. That's one law, the market (= higher prices) will take care of the rest. > people in the developing world are consuming more meat as their incomes rise I'm aware :) However, that made sense when there were 1 B of humans, not when our needs overshoot the environmental capacity of our environment. If everyone ate like we westerners do (and they will want to, when we still do) then we'd need something like 4-5 earths to sustain everyone. > mass-deployment of nuclear power plants and vertical farms requires only that Sure, but that means a lot of resources (oil, for example) and further destruction of the environment (mining, built-up areas), and a large timescale. Abolishment of animal ag subsidies is a piece of paper and few signatures.