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It can happen anywhere there's fiat currency and long supply lines.

Depends on the problem. If the general human consensus believes the sun revolves around the earth, you're going to have a hard time working with multiple minds. Problems which require radical shifts in ideology are more than likely going to be tackled alone. It would come down to the maximum power principle. You would waste a significant amount of energy pulling someone psychologically one step in your direction, whereas independently, you could be three steps closer to proving your thesis. Not to mention, social cohesion, or whatever you want to call it, encourages group think and naturally ostracises outsiders as a primitive form of bonding or fitting in with one another.

Really hard problems fight monocultures of 'obvious truth' in the bonds of multiple minds.

Horizontal gene transfer is one of the issues brought up by researchers who discovered the plastic eating fungus Pestalotiopsis Microspora

Losing the pollinators is part of an unravelling ecosystem. If you think you're safe in your bubble, you won't be.

We'll pollinate by hand:

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-De...

> Long term, it is the most economically sustainable business from the perspective of the business owner

That's true, but not for the reasons stated. Once the population bubble bursts, the majority of human beings will become farmers if they want to survive. The negative stigma associated with farming for a living will quickly evaporate.

No, what we need is a decentralized food system. You really should be eating food indigenous to the region in which you live.

According to historian Dr. Joseph Tainter's book 'The Collapse of Complex Societies', if you exclude isolated groups such as tribes, there have been 23 distinct civilizations throughout the course of human history and 22 have failed. Hypercomplexity and specialization tend to be common characteristics, as well as, misuse of resources.

This really should be no surprise. Mainstream economics practices that the environment is a subset of the economy and not the other way around.

"Sure, I can live without fresh water and clean air, but a market? I need a market." /s

Love to see where you found that 99% figure

Search, or the quest for knowledge, is not going to be displaced or marginalized. If a small company builds true AI, Google is done.

kilocalorie

You still get bugs inside

Numbers vary, but somewhere between 7-12 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every 1 calorie of food. That's precooked; afterwards it can be 25 or more.

The entire food system is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon energy and long supply lines.

Take oil and natural gas away and billions of people would starve to death.

"There is evidence for it"

I would be super interested to see some evidence. Any peer reviewed journals would be fine

Wow!