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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Same, assuming technology never advances sure they might be right. But if I know my history right, I have good reason to believe technology might continue advancing to allow for some cool shit to be built. Wild guess I know

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I don’t think you guys are grasping the crux of the argument—it’s not that lab grown meat is impossible, just that it’s unlikely to become widespread as quickly as needed to strongly mitigate climate change. Seems like a compelling argument to me.

Similar to fusion power—very cool and likely to have important implications someday. But we need to make radical changes in the coming decades, so technology that isn’t close to commercialization today probably won’t save us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's 8.1 billion people on the planet.

We can do more than one thing at a time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of course. Let’s pursue it, I think there are other benefits as well. But we should be clear eyed that until it’s ready we also need to pursue other approaches like reducing meat consumption, emissions, land use, etc.

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