Secondly, we grow it very inefficiently. We could very easily increase the food yield of a given area of land by building a greenhouse on it (which also reduces water loss) and using poly-cultures instead of mono-cultures; the reason our preferred method is open-air mono-culture farms, which are susceptible to erosion and blight and requires a god-awful amount of water to stay hydrated, is that labor is expensive and land is cheap.
In fact, if we took it even further–growing our food in carbon dioxide-rich environments lit with artificial lighting 24 hours a day (or at least at night)–you only need 1-2000 square feet of farmland per person. Admittedly, you pretty much have to have fusion power for this to be an environmentally and economically viable option, but still; the point is, we could easily condense our environmental footprint by a shit-ton (and even more options will be available in the future) without decreasing our population one iota.
“There is still a maximum carrying capacity the planet has.”
Indeed there is. And do you know what that carrying capacity is? It’s ten trillion. And the cut off isn’t space or resources–it’s waste heat. The things we’d have to do to get there aren’t exactly the sort of things we could do overnight–hell, we don’t actually know how to fusion yet–but they’re all well within the realm of the physically possible.
My absolute favourite thing about watching comedians tear the shit out of Monopoly is that it was designed to be an over the top hellhole that exemplifies the worst parts of capitalism, intended to incite rage in people and help them recognize how fundamentally unfair this system is. And it did they by going to the maximum extremes that the creator could think of at the time.
And those maximum extremes she came up with?
Fucking nuked into extrasolar orbit by whatever the fuck is going on in actual real life right now, to the extent that monopoly just looks like…… a reflection of the actual world, rather than an exaggeration of anything.
Anyway, destroy capitalism, but until then if you make a consequence deck I would probably buy it just to see what’s in there.
everyone loves to shit on david cage for making his games so heavily prompt based but let me tell you it’s the prompts specifically that elevate his work to the level of modern masterpieces
Strangely, the fact that Philip “god spoke to me when I was doped up on root canal anaesthetic and is an alien” K. Dick was a wee bit paranoid does not come as news to me.
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