> But growing more food on less land might be a good thing.
Not if it costs us our humanity. The mistreatment of animals we eat/farm is astonishing.
Maximizing efficiency isn't always the best metric to try and optimize for, it leads to some really warped places.
(Interesting side note, Tolkien wrote about this a bunch -- Sauron was originally a forge/craftsman god who just really wanted to make things more efficient. His downfall was that he overly liked coordination and disliked wasteful friction.)
> Not if it costs us our humanity. The mistreatment of animals we eat/farm is astonishing.
"Humanity" not a universally accepted constant. Being "Humane" means largely arbitrary things depending on culture. I'm not sure I accept that your apparent definition of humanity meaningfully exists on a global scale so I'm far from worried about losing it.
Not if it costs us our humanity. The mistreatment of animals we eat/farm is astonishing.
Maximizing efficiency isn't always the best metric to try and optimize for, it leads to some really warped places.
(Interesting side note, Tolkien wrote about this a bunch -- Sauron was originally a forge/craftsman god who just really wanted to make things more efficient. His downfall was that he overly liked coordination and disliked wasteful friction.)