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reddit_liberator OP wrote

In about 40 years, even if we predict optimistically, we simply just won't have food, or at least you won't have food assuming you're middle/lower class.

What if you engineer it instead of conventional growing methods?

These things seem to be based on the idea that we wont be able to technologically combat the problems.

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anarcho_archiver wrote

Mind you, this is the optimistic prediction, so I did assume that lab-grown meat and plants are available. However, realistically people have been predicting that we'll be able to produce large amounts of food synthetically for years, and despite tons of research in that direction, we have made relatively little progress.

Even assuming huge breakthroughs, we simply don't have nearly enough energy, resources, or infrastructure for that matter to feed even a significant portion of the population with it. The cost for making it commonplace would cost tens of billions of dollars and several years of combined effort. It'll likely only be for the upper class at best.

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