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- Stand by for Big Meat to launch a long, slanderous campaign against plant-based protein and its rival, ‘farm-free’ food, based on protein produced by ‘precision fermentation.'
- We’re not in the Holocene any more. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.
- We’re not in the Holocene any more. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.
- As Jim Lovelock said in his book, Novacene, AGI would perceive human beings the same way as we see plants. However, human beings and AGI have no vital interests that obviously clash, and one existential shared interest: the preservation of a habitable climate on the planet we share.
- As Jim Lovelock said in his book, Novacene, AGI would perceive human beings the same way as we see plants. However, human beings and AGI have no vital interests that obviously clash, and one existential shared interest: the preservation of a habitable climate on the planet we share.
- Since the rise of agriculture, humans have increased the mass of animal life on land fourfold, but wild animals now account for only four per cent of that biomass.
- Since the rise of agriculture, humans have increased the mass of animal life on land fourfold, but wild animals now account for only four per cent of that biomass.
- ‘Farm-free’ food for people will come later, but the basic elements can be combined to suit human tastes too. In the future, if one of these catastrophes should strike, we can just switch from feeding the animals to feeding ourselves. We weren’t even looking for it, and we’re getting free survival insurance.
- ‘Farm-free’ food for people will come later, but the basic elements can be combined to suit human tastes too. In the future, if one of these catastrophes should strike, we can just switch from feeding the animals to feeding ourselves. We weren’t even looking for it, and we’re getting free survival insurance.
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