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Urban and suburban herding would be a great way to control grass without mowing. Modern shepherds wouldn't be bored if they're armed with smartphones. It would probably not be cost-effective if you had to pay people wages for babysitting and herding the animals around but for retirees and unemployed people, it would be a reason to get out of the house and kids would like having the animals around. The manure could be used as fertilizer for local gardens/farms.
I have said this on numerous other DNews videos and got flagged for spam and disliked to no end… -_-
vertical farms are a solution too!!!
Eat more babies!… Problem Solved.
ive thought about this but cant come up with a practical way to harvest everything and even grow things to their maximum size. any thoughts?
well, I don't necesarilly have an idea or a plan of my own on how to get there, but there are a few people working towards those ideas:
2 videos on vertical farming:
watch?v=cY7O5YNxKuI
watch?v=-ydeazX2W6M
a video on a project called Cybernated Farm Systems(CFS) which is oriented towards feeding undeveloped countries(not big cities)
watch?v=mL5laU-tY9Q
;)
OK, how?
anyone else hate the new youtube annotation/ quality layout?
1. Provide better sexual education and birth control, less unwanted babies=less babies
2. require a license to become a parent. you need a license to drive a car, but not one to create and raise a whole new human being?
3. ream the threat of overpopulation deeper into people's minds
Not even that might be enough, though.
I KNOW THIS IS GONNA SOUND BAD,BUT I BLAME CHINA AND INDIA,BIG PROBLEM.THROW THEM A VIRUS OR SOMETHING.
It may sound like a good solution, but you do realize that even if we somehow do convince people to be reasonable about their reproduction, we will encounter another problem:
Lots of old guys, and very few young people to take care of them & drive society due to lower amounts of birth.
We don't necessarily have to become vegans.
We could exploit the same mechanics of cancer to create unending, growing sources of meat.
Maybe an immobile blob of beef that continuously grows & can be harvested for large quantities of meet, fed through using insects.
The problem with reducing the amount of births is lack of manpower.
We'll end up with a tonne of old people with just a few younger people in comparison.
There's a good number of problems with such a solution.
The first, most notable problem is something that you'll see should you ever come with such a proposal in politics.
There was never really any attempt to 'advance' the human race by Hitler, what he had was pseudo science.
He only cared about aesthetics, such as color and shape, not the actual physical potential.
The people who realize the danger of overpopulation will reduce their reproduction.
Everyone else will just continue to reproduce frantically as ever.
And in the end, only the people frantically reproducing without concern for the future will be left.
If they didn't reproduce, only people who didn't care about global warming would be left.
So while it sounds paradoxical at first, it's equally paradoxical to not do it when everyone else are reproducing xD
Notice how different its government is from the west, however.
Just try passing such a bill in the US, just try :P
lol…u dont need to feed any beef with insects. Its already produced in labs meat for human consumption, and i guess meat growing in farms will be a solution for meat eaters in the future. Of course when people get educated enough they will turn to vegans because its the smart thing to do.
As about overpopulation the solution is education and higher standard of living. Well developed countries are stable in their population, while in the poorer 3rd world counties we see increase in birth rates.
You don't get something out of nothing.
Even grown meet needs a sustenance to grow ;)
yes, sure it needs something… but not insects… right now they can produce it from stem-cells, just like they experiment for growing organs for human bodies…
if u go to fastcoexist(dot)com there is an article,
"Lifestock: The Newest Player In The Growing Lab-Made-Meat Industry", which explains more about the process.
Insects are a super cheap source of protein though.
I think farming food nearby would be a really cool, because, not only would you not need to go to the regular store, you could also be more of a part of the community and bond.
That would pretty much be All of our government leaders :P
there gona have giant food or small food with a lot of calories?
How is this not morally wrong? I suppose by your logic it's perfectly fine to mentally torture someone to the point of suicide because you're not ''actually'' hurting anyone and you're enhancing the gene pool. I can't think of anything more humiliating for a person than to say that they and any potential children do not meet certain qualifications and must oblige. I wouldn't want to live in that kind of society. Imagine enforcing this restriction or if a sibling didn't make it. Disgusting.
It actually scares me reading his comments. Because this doesn't fall exactly into the definition of genocide he seems to think its perfectly justifiable even though you were just pointing out that it is certainly on the same spectrum. If he thought deeply about the nature of this society he is envisioning, I'd hope he would realise the depression and mass suicide it would cause and calculative mindset it would ingrain into society. Maybe I'm overreacting but I was surprised that some agreed.
The best solution to all environmental issues: Control human population.
The problem lies not in whether or not there will be enough food, but rather in whether or not there will be enough good.
We could just build huge Tower compleces as a inside grow greenhouse With massive amounts of co2 and other nutrients for planets to grow. A city of planets inside a huge skyscraper like Tower?
LESS PEOPLE IS THE ANSWER!!!! 2 BABY LIMIT WORLD WIDE. ( if someone has triplets etc that's ok.)
The 11 billion bit at 2100 is not what was expected from what i heard in a MOOC from a demograph.
What should be expected is 9 billion by 2050 then stabilisation and even possibly a reducing population.
See this TED talk about it : http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth
I had to privilege of hearing a lecture by the founder of the land institute, it's quite the interesting organization. He is very passionate about creating the perennial wheat.
I want a resource-based economy! This game for money is not cool… Please educate your self on this and spear the words as far and wide as you can! We can live in harmony with both our selfs and everything around us!
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we can eventually stop producing more than two child families across the globe
"if you wanna prevent this the first thing you wanna do is stopping climate change"
god will always provideÂ
we can start hunting humans :P
So "When the earth can't produce enough food", in "First World" countries, such as the USA and Eureopen (etc.) countries, the main "Health" problem of the population in those countries is "Obesity" – from having TOO MUCH of the WRONG food.
Currently, the main health problem in most of the world today (apart from Malaria) is either obesity or malnutrition. Â "Evening out" the food supply will not cure either problem.
People who live in a society which "can do" tend to live to the max, eat the "wrong" foods and have problems with obesity. Â Assuming that any individual wants to be "Saved" from obesity, the only way to "save" them is to teach them to limit their intake of the wrong foods and favor only the foods of their ancestors, whose metabolism they have inherited. (Since our human ancestors did not engage in agriculture, you may now wish to envisualize which foods should be excluded for best results!)
Virtually all of the populations suffering from malnutrition seem to depend upon agriculture for their sustenance. Â So, it is likely that dependence upon agriculture is the wrong answer.
People who live in a society which "can't do" seem to be doomed to a short life span, because of undernourishment. Unfortunately, it seems that one needs to suggest that their lifespan is not short enough, in that they still have enough time in which to reproduce and thus inflict their problems upon their succeeding generations – etc., etc. and so on "ad infinitum".
humanity destroying earth killing animals good job you suck😑
permaculture
my family has a strong farming past all of my fore fathers were farmers and i am not a farmer but i keep a large garden whic is a mix of a decorative garden and a wegetable garden i keep it to sawe money for investing.
f#$k meat eat plants yo
Look Jonny, everything you eat is generically modified, so you’re eating fake food
May God bless me with enough food.