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funwithtentacles t1_j9d6szc wrote

Reply to comment by macross1984 in World to face wars over food and water without climate action, EU green deal chief says by YoanB

Soylent Green was overly dramatic and unrealistic...

Think algae, insects, underground vertical farming, etc.

There is really only one problem to solve here...

It's energy... Figure out cheap energy and cheap energy storage and most of the problems go away...

Well that, and getting rid of the greedy people on the top that are willing to literally walk over dead bodies all day long... that much of it is 'Soylent Green' like, but then again, we been there for a long time already...

Energy and logistics... We grow way more food that we need to feed everyone on Earth, but when 30% of it is thrown into the trash because it's inconvenient to feed people because it won't generate a profite to the few people on top, you know where the issues are... and they're not with not being able to actually feed people.

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DorisCrockford t1_j9duo6s wrote

It's kind of hard to make cannibalism work for any length of time, anyway. You have to feed the people you're feeding to the people. It's not like some of them can eat grass.

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SuspiciousStable9649 t1_j9dbqdh wrote

This criticism was quite foretelling: Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker was negative, writing, "This pompously prophetic thing of a film hasn't a brain in its beanbag. Where is democracy? Where is the popular vote? Where is women's lib? Where are the uprising poor, who would have suspected what was happening in a moment?"[15]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

There appears to be a lot of beanbags missing brains.

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