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SamuM on October 23, 2007 - 2:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yes, except as per our "let others do the work" ethos, the guys with the guns who don't want to muddy their hands, will take it from those who actually farm. By force.

This is the way it has been in the history of food production in times of scarcity and empires.

If things come to scarcity again at global scale, I think it is fair to assume that the same cause of action is at least probable.

Here's hoping it won't come to that.

Reading the One-Straw Revolution (Fukuoka), one can't help to think that a more efficient production system is possible, but it will take time to learn for most and even longer to transition to it. That is, if energy scarcity becomes so bad as to warrant a complete makeover of the "totalitarian agriculture" as Daniel Quinn has labeled it.

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nh3 on October 24, 2007 - 5:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

slaves? who need them if the robotics can do their jobs more cost effectively?
guns? who need them if the designer virus can do their jobs more cost effectively?

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