If only.
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āHorrificā doesnāt even cover it. Iām glad thatās a static image and not a gif [shudder].
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Not innarested in a taste of the true black meat?
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Eurgh.
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In this case they could have gone right to Oxtoplex.
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I searched on this term ā Halo game something? ā but also got this on my search:
Whois domain gotopless dot org, Gotopless - Claiming equal topless ā¦
Google confused. I aināt going there.
Edit: I changed the reference to gotopless website so people donāt click on it by mistake! Sorry. My bad.
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Iām in favor of changing culture to eat less meat (much less), preferring sustainably-farmed plants. But this article is Malthusian, based on assumed scarcity, and the Malthusian argument is not one that Iād choose.
Itās the idea that only the rich deserve to survive and the poor should just die and get out of the way or at least shouldnāt be allowed to have sex. Ending welfare, not providing health care, paying starvation wages, and sending the poor off to war were ways that Malthus suggested to kill off the extra poor people. While that outdated scarcity-based approach clearly still has its proponents in politics today, it hasnāt worked yet and after hundreds of years, itās worth considering the opposite.
We know that wealthier populations have much lower population growth (in many areas tending toward replenishment or lower) and tend to eat healthier and more sustainably. Logically, raising people up from poverty into a wealthier lifestyle would therefore prevent the Malthusian catastrophe. That could only be done with the exact opposite approach - better health care, fewer pointless wars, higher wages, and more welfare. To get there, we have to consider the post-scarcity world, and ādress for the job we want, not the job we haveā.
In other words, assume that thereās plenty of food and act accordingly, and it will become self-fulfilling. (Technically, there already is plenty, itās just a matter of distribution, so the assumption isnāt too far off.)
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The middle classes in wealthy countries have fewer children, yes. Enormous per-child costs are imposed on middle-class parents who want to pass their privileges onto their offspring.
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It was supposed to be Octoplex. Curses, mobile keyboard strikes again. But Iām leaving it.
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Good comic, but supersized meals with double meat for only 30Ā¢ more arenāt aimed at the wealthy, just as the target market for $9 organic kale smoothies isnāt people in poverty.
In that context, the comic conflates the wealth of the U.S. with that of its citizens, - citizens that the U.N.'s special investigators of extreme poverty have discovered are living in āconditions that one doesnāt see in the first worldā.
Itās a strange situation where the wealthy shell out big bucks for sustainable fair-trade organic vegan food in realistic single-human portions while the poor are stuck with all-you-can-eat supersized meat meals (that could feed a village) because theyāre so much cheaper. We live in weird times.
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Collapsing? Stars like our donāt collapse.
They need to hire better astronomers. Which is odd, because their astrologers are usually on point.
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Animation warning, but no flashing or zooming:
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This was the plot of Timescape by Gregory Benford, a book I liked except for the rotten ending.
ETA: I like it better as FICTION.
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Obligatory:
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Probably a more realistic obligatory:
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