RE: The Post-Technological World.
March 15, 2019 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2019 at 12:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We can -already- support the current population in the absence of those things. It's methodologically possible, just not economically viable. The extensive development of production under cover and integrated systems can make transportation, irrigation infrastructure, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers obsolete in the present. It would be prudent to do so today, but in a world without those four things it would be a practical necessity. Just a minor aside and excuse to offer up a disturbing tidbit. The same is true of conventionals today, as well. We produce more food than all of us could eat.
Technological ability, even in the absence of conventional methodology, isn't the reason that people starve or a barrier to population. Not today, likely not in the future either. Don;t get me wrong, in the "post tech" world we're proposing I strongly doubt that we'd meet the upper range of our ability any better than we do now, ofc....it's just not for any reason to do with what really ought to be legacy tech in ag.
I;d be far more concerned about a lack of necessary skills, btw, when it comes to ag. Most of our tech is used to reduce the amount of people doing the work. Without that stuff and those products the trouble isn't really that there wouldn't be a way to grow food so much as there wouldn't be enough people who knew how. The sorts of alternatives I was referencing above are cleanroom setups where a person has to be on the ball with water management.
Technological ability, even in the absence of conventional methodology, isn't the reason that people starve or a barrier to population. Not today, likely not in the future either. Don;t get me wrong, in the "post tech" world we're proposing I strongly doubt that we'd meet the upper range of our ability any better than we do now, ofc....it's just not for any reason to do with what really ought to be legacy tech in ag.
I;d be far more concerned about a lack of necessary skills, btw, when it comes to ag. Most of our tech is used to reduce the amount of people doing the work. Without that stuff and those products the trouble isn't really that there wouldn't be a way to grow food so much as there wouldn't be enough people who knew how. The sorts of alternatives I was referencing above are cleanroom setups where a person has to be on the ball with water management.
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