alt Hacker NewsI counter you with soil degradation, which is gradual (over decades, even centuries), and extremely difficult to reverse (millennia).
We may yet discover that Malthus was right.
Then what??
https://eu.boell.org/en/SoilAtlas-soil-degradation
https://earth.org/95-of-the-earths-soil-on-course-to-be-degr...
https://www.fao.org/about/meetings/soil-erosion-symposium/ke...
> We may yet discover that Malthus was right.
We may also discover that einstein-rosen bridges exist [1] or that aliens exist or that magic is real or that astrology works. Hopefully none of these things are keeping you up at night.
Also, broken clocks, twice a day right, etc etc. Clocks still broken.
> Then what??
Plenty of dystopian sci-fi available for your reading/viewing pleasure. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature