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dnadude t1_jebpwbf wrote

Cellular Agriculture is going to radically transform our food system. It's going to become cheaper to eat animal protein made from precision fermentation and cultured meat. When you're on government assistance because AI took your job, you just won't be able to afford the real stuff anymore. This will bankrupt so many farmers. A lot of farm land is about to go back to prairie. Rural communities will be destroyed. This will be happening along side the AI arms race we have going on right now.

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PotentialHornet160 t1_jef4jde wrote

This could be a great thing for the environment though. I see a future where most people live in cities and the vast majority of land is preserved. Ecotourism would be huge. Imagine the buffalo once again roaming the US because there’s no more farmland to break up their habitat.

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dnadude t1_jef8sba wrote

There's a whole think tank report on this technology trend and the consequences. I don't know if they are a little optimistic on the timelines, but the science and economics is sound.

I used ChatGPT to combine data from this report and the USDA Ag census to do a back of the envelop calculation on how much water will be saved in a certain region and what would happen if most of that water made it back to the dying lake it was diverted from.

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