The fear that people will become cannibals and begin to "start eating each other"
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On the Internet, there is a strong fear that people will start to eat in the literal sense of each other.
Let's take a look at some of the promises to the emergence of this, after which I will then give the facts
which are mutually exclusive them:
-We cannot sow the whole earth by food. There are deserts and oceans and arctic ice that are not suitable for this.
-Do not need. If we believe the magazine "popular mechanics", in addition to the fact that we are NOW interchangeable products of natural origin and improve their properties (such as fish farms or insects), so also in the future there will be entirely new sources of food that we have never dreamed of ": Algae, photosynthesis, food from a 3D printer.
-Our ancestors Neanderthals were cannibals. Based on our biological predispositions, we are by nature - cannibals.
-I agree, this is confirmed by the information of archaeological finds described in the articles of magazines “Narodnaya Pravda” or “Gazeta.ru”. But I'll let myself ask with some irony "Maybe that's why they became die out?”
In fact, with the natural course of history, a person deliberately departed from such a model and standard of behavior, which was served by several important factors. Beginning from the primitive: because easier to defend together or to breed oneself, ending with the more "socialized": another person has the same freedoms as I have, or from fear of condemnation and non-acceptance by society. And if you take information from the journal “Environmental Science and Technology”, then you can see that now scientists in one form or another create "the most real synthetic meat." Such growing of meat in laboratories will require 7-45% less energy, 99% decrease the exploitation of land resources and reduce the production of greenhouse gases by 78-96%. And in the course of evolution, people have already been repeatedly proven that mankind strives to "minimize costs" and "increase its benefits from being on this planet". Just look at your smartphone.
-Overpopulation. We will fill the planet so much that we will literally "fall off the edge of the earth". How to solve this problem, if not by mutual eating each other?
-And in this time we will be saved again by technology. And I mean it how in a pragmatic, and in a "cultural" sense too. The people by themselves are already thinking about this problem and if they do not look for solutions from this problem, they at least seek how to "minimize pressure". Space programs, SpaceX and the "flight to Mars" by Elon Musk. Developments of hydroponic researches and cultivation of agricultural crops at home. And if you can provide yourself by food, then for this problem of mankind as a world problem you need not worry.
Thank you for attention.
https://gizmodo.com/the-future-will-be-full-of-lab-grown-meat-1720874704
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926413000210
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