Soylent Green was overly dramatic and unrealistic...

Think algae, insects, underground vertical farming, etc.

There is really only one problem to solve here...

It's energy... Figure out cheap energy and cheap energy storage and most of the problems go away...

Well that, and getting rid of the greedy people on the top that are willing to literally walk over dead bodies all day long... that much of it is 'Soylent Green' like, but then again, we been there for a long time already...

Energy and logistics... We grow way more food that we need to feed everyone on Earth, but when 30% of it is thrown into the trash because it's inconvenient to feed people because it won't generate a profite to the few people on top, you know where the issues are... and they're not with not being able to actually feed people.

At this point in history, drifting into the future without any clear idea of where our species needs to go, will be catastrophic. It is time to step back and think about what it would take to make our civilization sustainable for the long-term. It is about much more than just climate change. www.aspenproposal.org

Hell, just the vague rumor that there might be some supply chain issues during COVID was enough to cause panic, mass hoarding and shortages.

Can you imagine how people are going to act when we get our first real taste of a global warming summer, start hearing about widespread crop failures and drouts?

Shit goes back way earlier than that... We've practically known about this since the 1970s, only we're really good at ignoring anything in the way of inconvenient facts.

Same here and thank whatever deity you subscribe to for that!

I do worry about all the young nieces and nephews I have that are born into this crap and will just have to suffer through it.

We really don't have to do anything...

Diseases like Covid will eventually take care of overpopulation.

It's nothing new either... Even I 30+ years ago in basic high school biology we were taught that monoculture invites disease...

None of what we're going through now is anything we didn't know 40-50 years ago.

As a species we're just experts at complacency and ignoring everything that doesn't impact us directly...

It's going to catch up to us one way or the other...

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I’ll be already dead so I don’t really care tbf.

We've entered the realm of positive feedback loops... Warming begets more warning and it cannot be stopped.

Enjoy life while life is still worth living.

We've entered the realm of positive feedback loops... Warming begets more warning and it cannot be stopped.

Enjoy life while life is still worth living.

Yeah your right.. better put that head back under that rock

What do you mean by population reduction

We need to build community's around water collection from rain, local food production via vegetable and serous mushroom farms with aquatic farming of eels,

Our communities need to have integrated food production where we live as much as possible with each community built around a central super school that functions as community hub, lifelong education support has elements of flexible manufacturing. Is linked to other hubs via rail.

So the majority of us can travel via bike, skate scooter and walking to the majority of our life needs.

Take cars out of the equation for most people, build real gardens where we live, herb, vegetable, orchards, fake river systems that flow circular through the different systems so it's filtered by the plants, grows eels and other types of fish to eat.

If we can re set how we live, we can lower our carbon emissions. Re grow our ecology.

pretty sure i saw this kind of headline 10 years ago...

And focusing on population reduction. Our planet can not support the ever burgeoning population.

I'm so fucking glad I didn't have children.

Hope the world will not end up becoming like the movie, Soylent Green.

You dont need to cull anyone, just stop having kids. Convert the sexbots to assisted living caretakers.

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Man, what a thankless, hopeless job this man must have. Literally your job being a living Cassandra complex.

“Timmermans said that there was a “nascent” sense of urgency within society, which needs to be harnessed by industry and government in order to implement change.”

this is truth.

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As long as there is profit to be squeezed out of our current system it will continue. We abandoned science long ago.

The only way to solve the issue is population reduction.

Russia is going to be vital in providing food to Europe and the rest of the world and that is who everyone decided to sanction. Russia will have record food crop production while every other country is screwed.

In the meantime everyone is Europe is burning coal and wood, Africa is experiencing a population explosion, and its another year year of heat waves that limit food and energy production, dry up water resources and what else?