Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by ben_w on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:35AM
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I’m all in favour of this for climate change and animal welfare reasons, but I don’t see how it’s a national security concern in e.g. Europe and America, given they already encourage farming overproduction specifically because food is so important, and that almost everywhere could already be more effective in how many people a given unit of land area or fresh water can support, both by encouraging vegetable-based diets and separately with more poly-tunnels, greenhouses, and aeroponics.
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Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by ethanbond on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:50AM
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Well one mechanism by which this becomes a natsec concern is food scarcity in other parts of the world might simultaneously cause domestic instability as well as mass migration to more food-secure locales.
We should also do all of the things you mention here.
Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by Retric on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:44AM
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Overproduction is based on assumptions around how variable farm output is. Climate change increases variability.
Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by airhead969 on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:48AM
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Climate change isn't the weather.
Climate is the average.
We are in a global warming emergency and no one is doing enough about it.
Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by Retric on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:49AM
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Climate isn’t the average weather it’s the expected weather. X hurricanes every Y years for example doesn’t change the average significantly, but their a major climate concern in areas at risk from them.
Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by hypertele-Xii on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:47AM
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Climate change is literally the weather.
Re:World’s first lab-grown meat facility pumps out 5k burger...
by ben_w on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:53AM
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Long term average weather. But yes, IIRC, climate change is causing more extreme variability, and that variability itself is a problem.
Though I do disagree with @airhead969, as the literally exponential growth of PV by itself looks to me to be enough to make us net zero in a decade or two (probably two, given exponentials are often sigmoids in disguise).