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It can happen anywhere there's fiat currency and long supply lines.

Depends on the problem. If the general human consensus believes the sun revolves around the earth, you're going to have a hard time working with multiple minds. Problems which requ…

Horizontal gene transfer is one of the issues brought up by researchers who discovered the plastic eating fungus Pestalotiopsis Microspora

Losing the pollinators is part of an unravelling ecosystem. If you think you're safe in your bubble, you won't be.

We'll pollinate by hand: https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-De...

> Long term, it is the most economically sustainable business from the perspective of the business owner That's true, but not for the reasons stated. Once the population bubble bur…

No, what we need is a decentralized food system. You really should be eating food indigenous to the region in which you live.

According to historian Dr. Joseph Tainter's book 'The Collapse of Complex Societies', if you exclude isolated groups such as tribes, there have been 23 distinct civilizations throu…

This really should be no surprise. Mainstream economics practices that the environment is a subset of the economy and not the other way around. "Sure, I can live without fresh wate…

Love to see where you found that 99% figure

Search, or the quest for knowledge, is not going to be displaced or marginalized. If a small company builds true AI, Google is done.

kilocalorie

You still get bugs inside

Numbers vary, but somewhere between 7-12 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every 1 calorie of food. That's precooked; afterwards it can be 25 or more. The entire food system is hea…

"There is evidence for it" I would be super interested to see some evidence. Any peer reviewed journals would be fine

Wow!