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!

Oh, projecting human sensibilities and motivations to aliens. How insightful!

The sad state of the nerds these days....

Read something from Stanislaw Lem, sir. Regarding aliens and first contact, I recommend (if you can find it in English) his literature essay reviewing Strugatski's "Roadside picnic".

The other day I listened to an interview with the Prime minister of Israel. He mentioned that he never reads novels, but instead reads history a lot. But after he was recommended (and read) a novel about a future cyber war he was spurred into action of improving Israel's cyber security efforts. The novel thought him about the importance and significance of cyber security.

Part of the discussion was about AI. And then I thought that the warning about the dangers of AI "simply" because of creating something that is smarter than all humans combined, whether conscious or not, in fact the very message for which Elon is constantly being ridiculed or ascribed profit motives on /. ,the bastion of nerddoom/s, is the loud and clear message of Lem's short story " Lymphater's formula". 62 years ago were told about it and if politicians and legislators (or maybe some pretenders calling themselves nerds) would have read it, it would not have been such a surprise of what might happen if we can't manage AI well.

It is ridiculously funny that /. bigmouths who are constantly bitching about corporations, government or TLA's screwing with people fully fell for the multi decade scam of the TLA's to discredit the topic and make it so that every mention of it would be social, political or business death. And you big "anti establishment" mouths are dancing on CIA's tune like puppets.

It's poetic!

A train is a train is a train.

But only between Ferengi!

of these kinds of articles. Nothing to do with anything but " Elon bad".

I thought I left Pravda and Izvestia behind....

Many years ago, when the Bush administration was gearing for the Iraq war, a western journalist told me many months before that it would happen. How did she know? The media fuss. She said that the media always prepares people for the next enemy to be combated, whether a state or something else (war on....fill the blanks). The only change these days is that a) the political masters are from different party and b) it is much worse now with the total control of the tech bros over all discourse .

Spreading North than ever before.

What do you mean by ever before? The entire history of Earth? History of the species? History of civilization?

So what happened 1200 years ago when grapes were growing in Greenland? How far North did malaria travel?

Hallelujah!

25 years ago the WHO retracted " high cholesterol does not correlate with high dietary cholesterol".

But why am I surprised? People updating their beliefs and/or rationale throughout their lives? Hahahahaha. Scientists don't do that let alone the general public.

After all, people obviously do not understand second derivatives (I thought that speed and acceleration are understood by most). How else we'd have 85 percent of westerners saying there's a population explosion going on whereas the opposite is true. Second derivatives are apparently, and hillariously, difficult for STEM people too. My peers are no less misinformed and ignorant than the average people.

Food is probably the biggest and most damaging scam in the world. Followed by climate change....eat carbs, save the planet!

That is the only source of benzene in our environment. The only one, I tell you! Cancer rates will drop to zero if we stop using gas for coocking! I tell you!

"Or Q-anoners, or flat earthers, or 9/11 truthers, or Twitter users (kidding... sort of)."

Oh, I see...you not at all a part of "a group (albeit a group often containing millions of co-believers)".

Much better to have one narrative, controlled by the right people (my side) for all. Right, comrade?

Someone has not read " The Brave New World" I see....

In the past the major discussion on /. was if we live in "The Brave New World" or "1984" and if both apply, what is the ratio.

How have the mighty fallen.

Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

I disagree. On YouTube you have very small but non zero chance of getting interesting and insightful comment. Not so much on /. anymore.

I am also shocked by the levels of (often ignorant) dismissal by the "obtuse know it alls on the internet". It was different 20 years ago...

Very good!

That was my first thought too....
My second one was about the Lost Cometary Colony. Now that's even obscurer reference.

Thay are hungry all the time because they eat carbs. Go on keto and you'll decrease the weight without feeling hungry for a minute. And food tastes fantastic. The health benefits are too numerous to list here.

Did it myself, BTW, works like a charm.