alt Hacker NewsYou don't have the _slightest_ idea of how much energy and materials you would need to provide sufficient grow lights to feed humanity right?
You don't have the _slightest_ idea of how much energy and materials you would need to provide sufficient grow lights to feed humanity right?
Sure I do. Do you have anything else you can propose that would help at all?
And if a couple billion people (minimum) would be dead if we didn’t do it ASAP, do you think that energy or material wouldn’t be expended at the drop of a hat?
Hell, look at how much energy we expend just to serve cat videos.
People generally respond to sudden, external, visible risks pretty well.
It’s when risks are hidden, build slowly, or are caused by behaviors they consider ‘unsolvable’ and they’ve learned to adapt to that they suck.