It's summer in Montreal. The ducks are taking a dip in the pond, the plants are in full bloom -- but for Aandrianna Jacob, it's no walk in the park. Like many others, she's worried about climate change.
This doesn’t even take into consideration that we’re doing a terrible job utilizing our resources as things stand as well.
I think it was something like 70%+ of all food crops grown go to feeding livestock, with something like 70% of that being to growing beef. And of the 30% or so that goes to non-livestock (which includes pets), about half of it is wasted. I mean, it’s not just kitchen waste, but farmers frequently throw away entire hectares of their crop just because they couldn’t sell it. Not to mention how much is thrown out along the way to a person’s home because they’re not pretty enough.
And if people argue that even if we fix that, that’ll only give us a bit more leeway, there’s a bunch of alternative farming that are capable of getting yields massively greater than traditional farming. Not only growing crops 24/7, but in environments that growing isn’t normally possible. And then there’s vertical farming that basically allows to stack fields ontop of each other.
And if energy is the problem, the issue there is that nobody wants to invest in better forms of power generation because of disinformation. Nuclear is insanely clean and safe. Fewer people have died from nuclear compared to any other form of energy generation, even measuring by watt. Yes, even wind has killed more people than nuclear due to accidents during installation and maintenance.
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Honestly, there’s too many people on earth and we need to curb the population growth.
Also this constant growth from companies isn’t realistic. Our resources are not infinite. We had to hit a wall at some point and start to decrease.
Native population growth is ALREADY curbed in nearly all Indusrialized Nations and places like the US are only growing due to immigration.
The global population keeps climbing because of under and still developing countries…and even in those places their rate of growth is slowing.
Globally the population will hit max around the year 2100 but many rich nations already heat peak population and are now declining.
This doesn’t even take into consideration that we’re doing a terrible job utilizing our resources as things stand as well.
I think it was something like 70%+ of all food crops grown go to feeding livestock, with something like 70% of that being to growing beef. And of the 30% or so that goes to non-livestock (which includes pets), about half of it is wasted. I mean, it’s not just kitchen waste, but farmers frequently throw away entire hectares of their crop just because they couldn’t sell it. Not to mention how much is thrown out along the way to a person’s home because they’re not pretty enough.
And if people argue that even if we fix that, that’ll only give us a bit more leeway, there’s a bunch of alternative farming that are capable of getting yields massively greater than traditional farming. Not only growing crops 24/7, but in environments that growing isn’t normally possible. And then there’s vertical farming that basically allows to stack fields ontop of each other.
And if energy is the problem, the issue there is that nobody wants to invest in better forms of power generation because of disinformation. Nuclear is insanely clean and safe. Fewer people have died from nuclear compared to any other form of energy generation, even measuring by watt. Yes, even wind has killed more people than nuclear due to accidents during installation and maintenance.