Meditating on how much struggle, hardship, uncertainty & loss was inherent to virtually all human lives a few short generations ago. It gets me every time. We're both torch-bearer & torch for ever greater ways to be humanpic.twitter.com/vxZwB2GUuV
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That curve represents a swing to industrialised agriculture, the greatest contributor to CO2 emissions, so I'm seeing a fairly big inflection on it pretty soon
I really, really doubt it. Westerners would not need much of a taste of subsistence farming (or high-cost food) to reject it. In 1900, the average American household spent nearly half their budget just to eat.pic.twitter.com/WiX686g7rO
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So, given the climate emergency we face, I fear we will either need to embrace lower-catbon (higher labour) methods soon, or simply perish en masse..
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Automated plant-based diets might allow us to keep exploring our minds and the Universe.
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We may be in for quite a bit of disturbance as cheap fossil fuels wind down. Here's an illuminating depiction that's a mix of bleak and hopeful.https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-316-chatting-jason-bedford-author-of-the-future-is-rural/ …
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