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“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally
(arstechnica.com)
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We literally grow enough plant based food to feed 16B people. Instead we give it to the 90B land animals we eat instead. For some reason
most people don't want to live on cereal and soy meal
it's almost as if.... we could grow something else. We'd actually free up a not-insignificant amount of agriculture land if we all ate plant based.
we use the soybeans for oil. the soy meal byproduct would be industrial waste of we didn't feed it to livestock
I reject your nightmare vision of 16 billion humans. 8 is already twice too many.
i'd argue that the ideal number of humans would be approaching zero.
Long term, it will. Evolution is still happening, there weren't any humans a million years ago, and there won't be any in another million.
Shorter term, humanity's main resource that allowed us to reach 8 billion in the first place is running out.
Unfortunately we're still headed towards 10 billion by mid century, and I shudder to envision that horror as I may still be alive then.