I keep hearing from conservatives that we can't do anything about climate change or reducing CO2. Natural gas has long been proposed as superior to oil because of releasing far less CO2. Fracking is dirty but we were producing plenty of natural gas before fracking. Fracking simply caused a glut and increased profits. Other factors like the reduction in driving mimics more efficient cars so we don't have to stop driving to make a difference. I just read we could offset all the cars just by grass feeding cows. Less corn is needed saving oil used in it's production, less corn means less gassy cows and allowing them to free range breaks down the waste more naturally releasing less methane and CO2. Also the soil becomes more biologically active allowing it to store more carbon as well as restoring the soil itself for farming. There are claims even, and not from left wing fanatics, that by field raising all our animals and going back to organic farming we could offset all our CO2 released. The point is factory farming is not sustainable and in some ways it's already starting to collapse. Downer cattle and Mad Cow are some of the many symptoms of weakness in the system. With farming we get the Gulf of Mexico dead zone as well as listeria outbreaks are a direct result of farm waste getting into our rivers. All of it together suggests the system is fixable without everyone driving electric cars and living like hyppies. Also organic farming is a cute term but hyppies didn't invent it it's how we produced food for the first 12,000 years. Modern farming has only been around for the last 100 years and has largely been a disaster.
The increase is an illusion. What's happened is everyone on the fence are now picking sides. It's really a radicalizing of the US which is like the middle east. I think you'd find the number claiming to be agnostic are dropping in direct proportion to those increases in true atheists.
The Bible left out the annoying twerp horseman but the rise of Justin Bieber just proves the Mayans were right and it's the end of times. How that boy band reject could be considered more popular than the President is a sign of how decadent we have become. Come on even Bush Jr and our current Congress should be thought of higher and our Congress is rated lower than the guys that club baby seals. We should all be afraid, I'm not talking zombie apocalypse afraid, much, much worse. At least zombies just make you want to shoot them in the head. Bieber and our Congress make us want to shoot ourselves in the head.
I know most are breaking it down to probable bullshit rape charges and Ecuador's sovereignty but the legal issue is dicer. If they had charged him with the US charges of revealing national secrets there might be a case for asylum. The problem is right or wrong they are charging him with rape. I've never heard asylum being given for rape other than statutory rape due to differences in laws. Asylum is normally given for political or religious persecution not to avoid prosecution on a criminal charge. Ecuador may not have a leg to stand on due to the 80s agreement. It's odd for a country to risk breaking ties with a powerful nation over a case like this. They don't want to be perceived as being bullied by a more powerful nation but technically they had no business getting involved. Rape charges aside he was out on conditional bail and he broke British law by seeking asylum. Like I say take emotion out of it and look at it from a legal standpoint and it's a pretty screwed mess. He's probably right they intend to hand him over to the US eventually but that's beside the point. He's risking the relationship between Ecuador and England to cover his own ass. In the end it's a futile exercise because Ecuador would have to risk breaking all ties with Brittan to even attempt to get him out of the country. The best he can hope for is to live out the rest of his life in the embassy and I doubt that's an option. If he leaves the police will grab him and even if he makes it to the airport there's no way they'll clear the flight. They aren't required by international law to allow a fugitive to leave the country even if he is with people representing Ecuador.
Sad that they didn't even get to fire the scramjet. If they are still having this much trouble it may put to bed rumors of a scramjet operating in the 90s. I'd still love a good explanation for the contrails, the cotton balls with a string through ones. They haven't been seen before or since so it was obviously some kind of military test. The most logical still would be a scramjet given the pulse nature of the trails.
I still remember back in the late 90s when we all blocked cookies. Now if you do it cripples a lot of the internet sites. Sad how badly abused our privacy is these days. Cookies could have been handled in an non evil manner but is wouldn't have helped the corporations invade our privacy.
Might not kill Facebook but it isn't going to help their stock. If I was foolish enough to have bought FB stock I'd be pretty panicky around now. Feels like rats leaving a sinking ship. It's feeling like one of those stocks that will eventually hit a $1 or less. All that's keeping the stock out of the toilet is they have income but it's not enough to justify the stock price. If the income drops sharply there's nothing to keep it out of a death spiral. I'm not talking about tomorrow but in five or so years if they don't improve there outlook it's going to look bleak. If Facebook looses it's position, which it's likely to as cool and trendy, it's user base will drop and so will it's income. If my retirement depended on Facebook stock I think I'd consider playing the lottery. It's just looking more and more like a tech bubble.
The impression is that Apple releasing a specific sized device is some how unfair to the competition and yet there was no question of this when Microsoft announced their device. People can argue specs all they want but when it comes down to it the iOS devices deliver the best user experience for most people. Android is popular mostly because the other companies have little choice but to pick it for development. If Apple opened up iOS for development Android would likely die overnight. No danger of that happening I'm just making a point. The point isn't that iOS is inherently superior it's just overall people are happy with it. There's talk of tablets taking over for desktops, not likely but the point is for most people they are good enough so there is a decline in desktops. Tablets will never be adequate though for most people doing serious work on a computer. I have a new iPad and I still spend 98% of my time on the desktop and do no actual work on the iPad. Look at it this way for all the fancy new input devices and overall improvement in computers I still work on an IBM style keyboard, I'm working on a Mac but I hate their keyboards, and I use a $10 Logitech mouse, I'm hard on mice and can kill a Mac one in less than a month and the cheapie Logitechs last 10X as long as the expensive ones. Basically how I use a computer hasn't changed that much in 25 years. I find touch pads clunky and hate using them even. I bought my first one 15 years ago and hated it so I went back to a mouse. I tried trackballs and hated those as well, I do computer graphics and trackballs are only good for editing film and spread sheets. The point is for all the attempts at reinventing the wheel the wheel still works fine. Okay we have an iPad mini coming out, so what? It'll fill a nitch and the desktop will soldier on. I expect an iPad "Maxi" eventually with a 15" or 16" screen. They'll probably come with that cover that doubles as an keyboard/display. Guess what? Back in the old days we called those notebooks and laptops! Try as you might to remake the wheel you eventually come back to round with a hole in the middle it just looks fancier.
I have to wonder if this will hold our interest until 2020 or beyond? It's one thing to try to predict the next year or two but the consoles have exceeded 5 years in having to remain current. I trade off my PC every two years so the console is always going to behind the technology for half it's life cycle at best. Even iPads release new versions every year or so. At this rate the tablets will exceed the abilities of the consoles before the following cycle. They can't survive with this snail's pace of innovation.
Why not go with the best overall standard regardless of who introduced it and whether or not it was the first. Now this doesn't mean I'm for or against either standard, it just seems that the assumption is that it should be ignored because it wasn't first and because Microsoft introduced it.
When has that ever worked? The US picked NTSC when Pal was clearly the superior standard. VHS won out even though Beta was better. Some felt HD was better than Blu-ray, I was on the Blu-ray side, but Blu-ray won out. At the time it came out Firewire then firewire 800 were clearly superior standards. Eventually other standards came out to compete but I used Firewire for years and enjoyed the speed while others stubbornly refused to support it or users to use it. Generally there are business and political factors that will determine a standard. Microsoft's is likely no better it's simply one they control. Apple does the same thing by tweaking things like ePub into their own proprietary standard so they can control it.
The point is following the rules of the road like speed and proper distancing tends to annoy LA drives which can lead to violence, some gun related. Not all driving is text book and different areas have different social rules. In Washington State drivers that are the first to a four way stop will often wait for another driver to go first. This has got to confuse an AI system.
We're also polluting ground water at an alarming rate. With more droughts likely ground water is critical to agriculture in the US as well as drinking water. I used to live in LA and a disturbing number of wells were contaminated some even with radioactive waste, none from power plants it was industrial pollution. I'm in Phoenix now and the city is sinking due to the aquifer collapsing as the water is drained. That's capacity that is perminately lost. For every foot of settling that's the city a foot deep in water that's lost. The city has lost 74.5 million acre-feet in the last 70 years to give an idea what Phoenix is facing.
HP Lovecraft. He generally dismissed as a horror writer by non horror fans but he's not given credit for the scifi nature of most of his work. There are obvious scifi stories like "In the Walls of Eryx" but most of his stories had scifi themes. At the Mountains of Madness was about an alien race that built a city in Antarctica millions of years ago and potentially created human life if not all life on Earth. Even stories like The Whisperer in Darkness dealt with a race of aliens that harvested brains to transport the minds of people between worlds. The old gods were described as very powerful aliens. He talked about alien races, space travel, dimensional travel and engineering lifeforms with science not magic. The magic in his stories was mostly expressed as alien super science even the spells and symbols used were seen as science. Another story Cool Air was about some one preserving life after death with chemicals and refrigeration. People forget the original Herbert West Reanimator was a Frankenstein like story of resurrecting the dead through science not magic. Yes he was a horror writer but the bulk of his world was more science fiction than fantasy.
Take away the profit and you take away the reason to create new content to share. It's not a popular argument but it's a realistic one. Share copyrighted material and eventually the copyright holders stop producing new content. Not because they are being mean or greedy but eventually they run out of resources. It's not even an argument. If it costs a 100 million to make a movie and there's no profit as in you take a loss, how long until you stop making movies? Yes I know fan movies will save us all but are you honestly pirating fan movies or "The avengers"? This is a fight we all will loose. I know being realistic makes me a troll and I promised myself to stay out of this loosing battle but as a movie fan and some one that works in the industry I see the end coming and no one will be happy with the final outcome. I loose my way of life and everyone finds themselves pirating old movies. The pirates winning means no new movies. That's the reality of what we are facing.
I saw "The Train Job" first and never could get into the series. Then I saw the actually pilot and loved it. Universal killed it by trying to fix what wasn't broken. Watch the pilot then Serenity back to back and see what it might have been. Now I love the whole thing but it was always meant to be edgier, it was Universal that wanted more humor.
Nevil Shute: On the Beach... ordinary people doing ordinary things before they all die.
Also the most depressing film ever made. It should be the acid test for any world leader. If you can read it or watch the movie and you'd still launch nuclear weapons you are by definition insane.
that human coffe/tea consumption and pee will have an effect on the world's oceans.
Other human activities, yes, definitely. But not this.
It's a positive affect. Caffeine addiction with fish comes in handy. Just pour a shot of expresso in the water and it's like chumming for sharks. I've heard just waving a Starbucks label over the water will make the fish go bananas. I'd be careful about making them go cold turkey. The fish could get pretty surly.
This senseless act of violence against the people of Mars is unacceptable. The impact of a NASA weapon of mass destruction rattled several homes while Martians were trying to watch the Olympics to see who won the women's football game between the US and New Zealand. Most Martians were asleep and had to wait for the rebroadcast. This traumatic event must be compensated for to make right the horror that the Martian citizens faced when the rover impacted the surface of Mars. The lawsuit demands a trillion dollars in compensation but it's believed they will accept 10,000 iPhone 5s as a compromise.
We don't all have to eat insects to solve the food problem. I do agree seaweed is part of the solution and insects can play a major role. Cattle simply aren't practical to based a large portion of our diet on as many Americans do. They have an extremely poor conversion rate. Sheep are terrible too. Both produce massive amounts of greenhouse gases and require ridiculous amounts of land and water. Bison were a better solution and before we turned the Great Plains into the great grain belt there were 60 million of them that required no care. Bison can't replace cattle but they are an example of a low impact animal. Fish are the best at food conversion. Birds like chickens and game birds are also very good. Where we got into trouble was the focus on grain based diets. It seemed the logical way to industrialize domestic animals but it left us using the bulk of the land to grow grains. Also the over use of grains is part of the weight problem. Our animals are unhealthy and we eat heavily processes grains for the bulk of our diet. I started researching the problem many years ago. One of the things that got me started was reading that young birds especially turkeys had to be fed a special processed feed that was high in protein. Given wild birds don't have access to store bought feed it lead me to the fact most young birds survive on an insect based diet. Even adult birds like chickens and turkeys eat a lot of insects when they are free ranged. Factory animals eat no insects only grain. Insects like crickets are easy to raise in volume and could replace a lot of the processed feed. Also millet and grain sorghum make more sense than corn. Both grow on poor land with little water or fertilizer. Fish have a similar issue. Tilapia are farm raised and one of the easiest to raise. On a natural diet they are healthy food but by forcing them to eat a grain based diet they get the nickname bacon with fins. Guess what they eat in the wild? Duckweed, it's pest weed that grows on top of the water. They love it, it's easy to grow and it can form a 100% of their diet. Similar with farm raised trout. In the wild insects make up a lot of their diet with small bait fish, frogs and crayfish the rest. In farm raised trout they aren't fed any of their natural diet. Bait fish eat algae and insects are once again easy to raise so there's no need to force game fish being farm raised onto a grain diet.
For us it's a myth grains are the best food. Fruits and vegetables are best for us. Right now it takes around an acre of land per person when you factor in everything including meat. By shifting to a more traditional approach and throwing out monoculture which was a disastrous idea the number can be raised to four people per acre. With vertical growing hydroponic systems the numbers can be a lot higher. Traditional systems also have the added benefit of restoring the land rather than depleting it. They use less fertilizer and far less water. One thing on hydroponics. The premade solutions are ridiculously expensive. FYI, you can mix up the dry powers for around a $1 a pound. A pound of powder will make a lot of gallons of solution and only a small amount of solution is added to your water. No petroleum based fertilizers are needed. Hydroponics has one major advantage, extremely low water usage. Also it's easy to add back the trace elements that are lacking in most farmland. One clever idea I read was to use expired vitamins to grind up for trace minerals.
Long winded but the point is there are options but they are ones farmers can do themselves that don't rely on corporate America so don't expect the government to champion the approach. We don't have to eat insects to fix the food problem but we can feed our domestic animals insects the way nature intended.
Slashdot Mirror
I keep hearing from conservatives that we can't do anything about climate change or reducing CO2. Natural gas has long been proposed as superior to oil because of releasing far less CO2. Fracking is dirty but we were producing plenty of natural gas before fracking. Fracking simply caused a glut and increased profits. Other factors like the reduction in driving mimics more efficient cars so we don't have to stop driving to make a difference. I just read we could offset all the cars just by grass feeding cows. Less corn is needed saving oil used in it's production, less corn means less gassy cows and allowing them to free range breaks down the waste more naturally releasing less methane and CO2. Also the soil becomes more biologically active allowing it to store more carbon as well as restoring the soil itself for farming. There are claims even, and not from left wing fanatics, that by field raising all our animals and going back to organic farming we could offset all our CO2 released. The point is factory farming is not sustainable and in some ways it's already starting to collapse. Downer cattle and Mad Cow are some of the many symptoms of weakness in the system. With farming we get the Gulf of Mexico dead zone as well as listeria outbreaks are a direct result of farm waste getting into our rivers. All of it together suggests the system is fixable without everyone driving electric cars and living like hyppies. Also organic farming is a cute term but hyppies didn't invent it it's how we produced food for the first 12,000 years. Modern farming has only been around for the last 100 years and has largely been a disaster.
The increase is an illusion. What's happened is everyone on the fence are now picking sides. It's really a radicalizing of the US which is like the middle east. I think you'd find the number claiming to be agnostic are dropping in direct proportion to those increases in true atheists.
From the state that wants marriage defined as the union of a brother and sister.
The Bible left out the annoying twerp horseman but the rise of Justin Bieber just proves the Mayans were right and it's the end of times. How that boy band reject could be considered more popular than the President is a sign of how decadent we have become. Come on even Bush Jr and our current Congress should be thought of higher and our Congress is rated lower than the guys that club baby seals. We should all be afraid, I'm not talking zombie apocalypse afraid, much, much worse. At least zombies just make you want to shoot them in the head. Bieber and our Congress make us want to shoot ourselves in the head.
I know most are breaking it down to probable bullshit rape charges and Ecuador's sovereignty but the legal issue is dicer. If they had charged him with the US charges of revealing national secrets there might be a case for asylum. The problem is right or wrong they are charging him with rape. I've never heard asylum being given for rape other than statutory rape due to differences in laws. Asylum is normally given for political or religious persecution not to avoid prosecution on a criminal charge. Ecuador may not have a leg to stand on due to the 80s agreement. It's odd for a country to risk breaking ties with a powerful nation over a case like this. They don't want to be perceived as being bullied by a more powerful nation but technically they had no business getting involved. Rape charges aside he was out on conditional bail and he broke British law by seeking asylum. Like I say take emotion out of it and look at it from a legal standpoint and it's a pretty screwed mess. He's probably right they intend to hand him over to the US eventually but that's beside the point. He's risking the relationship between Ecuador and England to cover his own ass. In the end it's a futile exercise because Ecuador would have to risk breaking all ties with Brittan to even attempt to get him out of the country. The best he can hope for is to live out the rest of his life in the embassy and I doubt that's an option. If he leaves the police will grab him and even if he makes it to the airport there's no way they'll clear the flight. They aren't required by international law to allow a fugitive to leave the country even if he is with people representing Ecuador.
Sad that they didn't even get to fire the scramjet. If they are still having this much trouble it may put to bed rumors of a scramjet operating in the 90s. I'd still love a good explanation for the contrails, the cotton balls with a string through ones. They haven't been seen before or since so it was obviously some kind of military test. The most logical still would be a scramjet given the pulse nature of the trails.
I still remember back in the late 90s when we all blocked cookies. Now if you do it cripples a lot of the internet sites. Sad how badly abused our privacy is these days. Cookies could have been handled in an non evil manner but is wouldn't have helped the corporations invade our privacy.
Out of all the years I've been watching /., I don't think I've ever seen a more bad-ass story title.
I guess it's better than a more literal "First Mummies May Have Been Inspired by Field of Dried out Bodies"
Might not kill Facebook but it isn't going to help their stock. If I was foolish enough to have bought FB stock I'd be pretty panicky around now. Feels like rats leaving a sinking ship. It's feeling like one of those stocks that will eventually hit a $1 or less. All that's keeping the stock out of the toilet is they have income but it's not enough to justify the stock price. If the income drops sharply there's nothing to keep it out of a death spiral. I'm not talking about tomorrow but in five or so years if they don't improve there outlook it's going to look bleak. If Facebook looses it's position, which it's likely to as cool and trendy, it's user base will drop and so will it's income. If my retirement depended on Facebook stock I think I'd consider playing the lottery. It's just looking more and more like a tech bubble.
The impression is that Apple releasing a specific sized device is some how unfair to the competition and yet there was no question of this when Microsoft announced their device. People can argue specs all they want but when it comes down to it the iOS devices deliver the best user experience for most people. Android is popular mostly because the other companies have little choice but to pick it for development. If Apple opened up iOS for development Android would likely die overnight. No danger of that happening I'm just making a point. The point isn't that iOS is inherently superior it's just overall people are happy with it. There's talk of tablets taking over for desktops, not likely but the point is for most people they are good enough so there is a decline in desktops. Tablets will never be adequate though for most people doing serious work on a computer. I have a new iPad and I still spend 98% of my time on the desktop and do no actual work on the iPad. Look at it this way for all the fancy new input devices and overall improvement in computers I still work on an IBM style keyboard, I'm working on a Mac but I hate their keyboards, and I use a $10 Logitech mouse, I'm hard on mice and can kill a Mac one in less than a month and the cheapie Logitechs last 10X as long as the expensive ones. Basically how I use a computer hasn't changed that much in 25 years. I find touch pads clunky and hate using them even. I bought my first one 15 years ago and hated it so I went back to a mouse. I tried trackballs and hated those as well, I do computer graphics and trackballs are only good for editing film and spread sheets. The point is for all the attempts at reinventing the wheel the wheel still works fine. Okay we have an iPad mini coming out, so what? It'll fill a nitch and the desktop will soldier on. I expect an iPad "Maxi" eventually with a 15" or 16" screen. They'll probably come with that cover that doubles as an keyboard/display. Guess what? Back in the old days we called those notebooks and laptops! Try as you might to remake the wheel you eventually come back to round with a hole in the middle it just looks fancier.
I have to wonder if this will hold our interest until 2020 or beyond? It's one thing to try to predict the next year or two but the consoles have exceeded 5 years in having to remain current. I trade off my PC every two years so the console is always going to behind the technology for half it's life cycle at best. Even iPads release new versions every year or so. At this rate the tablets will exceed the abilities of the consoles before the following cycle. They can't survive with this snail's pace of innovation.
of ten thousand cheating husbands echoed through Minneapolis.
Why not go with the best overall standard regardless of who introduced it and whether or not it was the first. Now this doesn't mean I'm for or against either standard, it just seems that the assumption is that it should be ignored because it wasn't first and because Microsoft introduced it.
When has that ever worked? The US picked NTSC when Pal was clearly the superior standard. VHS won out even though Beta was better. Some felt HD was better than Blu-ray, I was on the Blu-ray side, but Blu-ray won out. At the time it came out Firewire then firewire 800 were clearly superior standards. Eventually other standards came out to compete but I used Firewire for years and enjoyed the speed while others stubbornly refused to support it or users to use it. Generally there are business and political factors that will determine a standard. Microsoft's is likely no better it's simply one they control. Apple does the same thing by tweaking things like ePub into their own proprietary standard so they can control it.
The point is following the rules of the road like speed and proper distancing tends to annoy LA drives which can lead to violence, some gun related. Not all driving is text book and different areas have different social rules. In Washington State drivers that are the first to a four way stop will often wait for another driver to go first. This has got to confuse an AI system.
We're also polluting ground water at an alarming rate. With more droughts likely ground water is critical to agriculture in the US as well as drinking water. I used to live in LA and a disturbing number of wells were contaminated some even with radioactive waste, none from power plants it was industrial pollution. I'm in Phoenix now and the city is sinking due to the aquifer collapsing as the water is drained. That's capacity that is perminately lost. For every foot of settling that's the city a foot deep in water that's lost. The city has lost 74.5 million acre-feet in the last 70 years to give an idea what Phoenix is facing.
HP Lovecraft. He generally dismissed as a horror writer by non horror fans but he's not given credit for the scifi nature of most of his work. There are obvious scifi stories like "In the Walls of Eryx" but most of his stories had scifi themes. At the Mountains of Madness was about an alien race that built a city in Antarctica millions of years ago and potentially created human life if not all life on Earth. Even stories like The Whisperer in Darkness dealt with a race of aliens that harvested brains to transport the minds of people between worlds. The old gods were described as very powerful aliens. He talked about alien races, space travel, dimensional travel and engineering lifeforms with science not magic. The magic in his stories was mostly expressed as alien super science even the spells and symbols used were seen as science. Another story Cool Air was about some one preserving life after death with chemicals and refrigeration. People forget the original Herbert West Reanimator was a Frankenstein like story of resurrecting the dead through science not magic. Yes he was a horror writer but the bulk of his world was more science fiction than fantasy.
Take away the profit and you take away the reason to create new content to share. It's not a popular argument but it's a realistic one. Share copyrighted material and eventually the copyright holders stop producing new content. Not because they are being mean or greedy but eventually they run out of resources. It's not even an argument. If it costs a 100 million to make a movie and there's no profit as in you take a loss, how long until you stop making movies? Yes I know fan movies will save us all but are you honestly pirating fan movies or "The avengers"? This is a fight we all will loose. I know being realistic makes me a troll and I promised myself to stay out of this loosing battle but as a movie fan and some one that works in the industry I see the end coming and no one will be happy with the final outcome. I loose my way of life and everyone finds themselves pirating old movies. The pirates winning means no new movies. That's the reality of what we are facing.
After I heard they cancelled the series.
I saw "The Train Job" first and never could get into the series. Then I saw the actually pilot and loved it. Universal killed it by trying to fix what wasn't broken. Watch the pilot then Serenity back to back and see what it might have been. Now I love the whole thing but it was always meant to be edgier, it was Universal that wanted more humor.
Nevil Shute: On the Beach ... ordinary people doing ordinary things before they all die.
Also the most depressing film ever made. It should be the acid test for any world leader. If you can read it or watch the movie and you'd still launch nuclear weapons you are by definition insane.
Fantasy, but otherwise pretty depressing stuff. The first series I read where I kept hoping the "hero" would die.
Atlas Shrugged had Orcs?
that human coffe/tea consumption and pee will have an effect on the world's oceans.
Other human activities, yes, definitely. But not this.
It's a positive affect. Caffeine addiction with fish comes in handy. Just pour a shot of expresso in the water and it's like chumming for sharks. I've heard just waving a Starbucks label over the water will make the fish go bananas. I'd be careful about making them go cold turkey. The fish could get pretty surly.
This senseless act of violence against the people of Mars is unacceptable. The impact of a NASA weapon of mass destruction rattled several homes while Martians were trying to watch the Olympics to see who won the women's football game between the US and New Zealand. Most Martians were asleep and had to wait for the rebroadcast. This traumatic event must be compensated for to make right the horror that the Martian citizens faced when the rover impacted the surface of Mars. The lawsuit demands a trillion dollars in compensation but it's believed they will accept 10,000 iPhone 5s as a compromise.
We don't all have to eat insects to solve the food problem. I do agree seaweed is part of the solution and insects can play a major role. Cattle simply aren't practical to based a large portion of our diet on as many Americans do. They have an extremely poor conversion rate. Sheep are terrible too. Both produce massive amounts of greenhouse gases and require ridiculous amounts of land and water. Bison were a better solution and before we turned the Great Plains into the great grain belt there were 60 million of them that required no care. Bison can't replace cattle but they are an example of a low impact animal. Fish are the best at food conversion. Birds like chickens and game birds are also very good. Where we got into trouble was the focus on grain based diets. It seemed the logical way to industrialize domestic animals but it left us using the bulk of the land to grow grains. Also the over use of grains is part of the weight problem. Our animals are unhealthy and we eat heavily processes grains for the bulk of our diet. I started researching the problem many years ago. One of the things that got me started was reading that young birds especially turkeys had to be fed a special processed feed that was high in protein. Given wild birds don't have access to store bought feed it lead me to the fact most young birds survive on an insect based diet. Even adult birds like chickens and turkeys eat a lot of insects when they are free ranged. Factory animals eat no insects only grain. Insects like crickets are easy to raise in volume and could replace a lot of the processed feed. Also millet and grain sorghum make more sense than corn. Both grow on poor land with little water or fertilizer. Fish have a similar issue. Tilapia are farm raised and one of the easiest to raise. On a natural diet they are healthy food but by forcing them to eat a grain based diet they get the nickname bacon with fins. Guess what they eat in the wild? Duckweed, it's pest weed that grows on top of the water. They love it, it's easy to grow and it can form a 100% of their diet. Similar with farm raised trout. In the wild insects make up a lot of their diet with small bait fish, frogs and crayfish the rest. In farm raised trout they aren't fed any of their natural diet. Bait fish eat algae and insects are once again easy to raise so there's no need to force game fish being farm raised onto a grain diet. For us it's a myth grains are the best food. Fruits and vegetables are best for us. Right now it takes around an acre of land per person when you factor in everything including meat. By shifting to a more traditional approach and throwing out monoculture which was a disastrous idea the number can be raised to four people per acre. With vertical growing hydroponic systems the numbers can be a lot higher. Traditional systems also have the added benefit of restoring the land rather than depleting it. They use less fertilizer and far less water. One thing on hydroponics. The premade solutions are ridiculously expensive. FYI, you can mix up the dry powers for around a $1 a pound. A pound of powder will make a lot of gallons of solution and only a small amount of solution is added to your water. No petroleum based fertilizers are needed. Hydroponics has one major advantage, extremely low water usage. Also it's easy to add back the trace elements that are lacking in most farmland. One clever idea I read was to use expired vitamins to grind up for trace minerals. Long winded but the point is there are options but they are ones farmers can do themselves that don't rely on corporate America so don't expect the government to champion the approach. We don't have to eat insects to fix the food problem but we can feed our domestic animals insects the way nature intended.
We could all wear bright blue t-shirts.