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It is not far future and it is not dystopian.

Anyone that have lived in China or India knows how much people those places have.

There is already a tremendous pressure from the food those countries demand on the world. Chinese fishing fleet just obliterates anywhere they go, and they are destroying the Amazon forest in Brazil and Argentina with soya(proteins for pigs) plantations and equatorial jungles for Palm Oil.

Anything is inefficient at first, including agriculture itself. Wheat and corn grains were super small at first. At first, solar panels did cost hundreds of times more than what it does today.

Technology will improve and the future will be better.



> Anyone that have lived in China or India knows how much people those places have.

Both India's and China's population is expected to fall significantly, It's Nigeria where large growth is still expected.

The pressure isn't necessarily so much from the people but from the appetite and trends and increase in spending money.

Unless you invent really good fake pork and fake fish made of vegetable protein you can grow in vertical farms that won't necessarily help




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