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BroomShakzuka t1_isalr5m wrote

Reply to comment by geonomer in Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms [2012] by Leprechan_Sushi

You could say the world is over populated, but I prefer to think about it in terms of that we're really bad at sharing and caring at the moment.

For example, if everybody would go vegan, we could feed the world many times over and free up a lot of land now used for animal agriculture. Almost 40% of habitable land is used up by animal agriculture. A meat-eater’s diet requires 17 times more land, 14 times more water and 10 times more energy than a vegetarian’s (not even vegan).

https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-would-world-look-if-everyone-went-vegan

Not saying that that is the only solution to what you call an overpopulation problem and I call a lack of harmony problem, but it is just one example that goes to show how relatively easy the solution to our problems would be if we were truly such social and cultuted creatures as we pretend to be.

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geonomer t1_isbanec wrote

True, however I also look at overpopulation in terms of natural resources such as water and forests, and it’s evident we’re depleting those resources much too fast with the current population.

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BroomShakzuka t1_isetrhj wrote

Yes, for sure. But it's not like we don't know how we could stop that. Without animal agriculture we can free up a lot of land to rewild. It's going to happen anyway, with the lab grown meat coming, but the question is whether we will be able to avert the biggest disasters. I feel sorry for the next generation; it doesn't bode well for them.

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