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cknipe t1_it7jajp wrote

Between this and the insect article the future is starting to sound pretty bleak.

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mutherhrg OP t1_it7np6s wrote

Do you even know what industrial feedstock even means?

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cknipe t1_it7owwk wrote

Does it not mean making stuff out of poop?

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diemaia t1_it7qoch wrote

No. The article mean using sludge to produce methane, as a biogas. The sludge would be used as a feedstock to bacteria, who then turn it in methane. That's nothing new. Bioreactors as UASB does this for a while.

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mutherhrg OP t1_it7pjwb wrote

And how is that bad? Would you rather that they dig up coal and use it? Or simply dump this waste into landfill or into the ocean? This stuff is for industrial use, it's meant to be processed and used in factories, alongside other feedstock that's so toxic that you can't touch it with your bare hands. It's just a nice method of recycling already processed and dirty material.

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Able-Emotion4416 t1_itgqzoi wrote

My African family still lives today in the ways of our ancestors: traditional subsistence farming, in natures rhythm. With little to no modern objects. (although, we did start to finance them modern tools, such as a electric stove, solar panels, etc. ).

When I visited them, they would ask question about life in the West. And I would tell them as best I could using simple words that they can understand in their context. And oh my God, the present is already bleak. Very bleak. I realized that while telling them, and they often looked at me with shock and horror.

There's also the stories of hunter-gatherer people from the Amazon forests and the Congo rain forests being invited to visit New-York. Usually, they hate it. The noise, the smells, the dirt, the food, the artificial lights, etc. They even felt ill often.

The only people who love developed Western world are those that have already lived in cities in the developing world. As it's an improvement for them. But for people like my African family, and for hunter gatherers, cities and modern development, be they Western or 3rd world, are usually hated as they look very dystopian for them.

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