• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 months ago

          we use the soybeans for oil. the soy meal byproduct would be industrial waste of we didn’t feed it to livestock

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          2 months ago

          I reject your nightmare vision of 16 billion humans. 8 is already twice too many.

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              2 months ago

              Long term, it will. Evolution is still happening, there weren’t any humans a million years ago, and there won’t be any in another million.

              Shorter term, humanity’s main resource that allowed us to reach 8 billion in the first place is running out.

              Unfortunately we’re still headed towards 10 billion by mid century, and I shudder to envision that horror as I may still be alive then.