Comment Re:The bigger picture (Score 1) 145
70 percent of the land mass is covered with grass. The only thing you can do with that without using huge amounts of fertilizer is grazers. I posit that the greatest loss of life, health, money and resources in the last 60 years is the high carb, unsaturated fats "healthy diet" that has produced half a billion diabetics alone and is wreaking the medical systems everywhere.
Now, imagine if USA's medical expenses dropped by half...medical research and manufacturing is extremely costly. What would that do to the environment? The benefits are incalculable, yet, this singular low hanging fruit is not only unrecognized by the so called "greens" but their "science" is pointing in the opposite direction! Cows are changing the climate!
What it all boils down to is that we are doing the opposite of what we should be doing to minimize our impact on the environment. The worst strategies in food and energy production are (ha-ha) holy cows, untouchable by fact and reason. We hold many such delusions. That is why 30 years after peak child (1994) just about everyone is saying there are too many people on the planet. Which is, indeed, the most abominable thing to say and believe, even worst than "that was no real communism".
So, yes, there is a point about fertile land exhaustion. But we don't need all that wheat, rice and corn. So, the masters of our world are "calculating" how many people can the current system with the brain dead policies support. Well, none at the end. None at all.
You want to save humanity and the planet? Make kids. Eat meat. Build nukes. BTW, the fact that the (refined) fission materials from the Cold war are just decaying somewhere without being burned for electricity is an abomination. There were 8 times more nukes at the height of the Cold war than there are today. I did a very rough calculation factoring 7% annual increase of demand for electricity (globally) and these materials came to satisfying Earth's needs for the next 50 years! And these materials are just decaying, emitting heat. They are already there....use them!