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I'm not trying to be all gloom and doom (honest!), but there is the real question of whether or not it is even possible to feed 6.5 billion people without modern industrial farming.
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There is no need to transport food hundreds of kilometers to have industrial farming.
But no, industrial farming is no vision for the future. It also not about going backwards but about going forward.
Industrialism is so last century. (I'm studying bioinformatics by the way)
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Technology could theoretically prevent or soften this, but even technology has its limits. Can we sustain 7 billion, 10 billion, 20 billion, 50 billion?
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With more countries getting wealthy childrate drops.
There are some calculations that show a realistic scenario of having fewer people in hundred years than today (longnow has a talk about the longterm thread of underpopulation)