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ash_274 t1_iwizvam wrote

Kill off the birds and rodents and then expect the insect population to explode. Get enough of a grasshopper population boom and they could go full locust and your problem turns biblical. This generally is going to be fucked in various ways over the next 5-15 years because of one "save the poor minks" guy that didn't think beyond the "???" step.

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ash_274 t1_iw2mqus wrote

Density is measured as of number of people per square mile. Since you can’t squeeze too many people/houses into a flat area, you have to build up into taller buildings. The US isn’t uniform in structural need and regulations (ground can’t support the same weight, seismic structural safety gets disproportionately more expensive the higher up or down you go, other expensive features become mandatory over certain heights, etc) so you couldn’t even have the same density in other parts of the country.

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ash_274 t1_ivvu3pa wrote

Might have been the improperly stored giant rolls of paper that broke loose and shifted to the back on takeoff, but the loading of the plane was mostly goods the admirals were bringing back home from foreign trade

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ash_274 t1_irw3p7e wrote

Wether you do it overnight or over a decade you have the same problem: you go from feeding 3000 people per acre to only feeding 1500 people per acre. Unless you have half your agricultural land unused, can create more arable land (difficult to do quickly and long-term), your economy can afford supplemental imports in perpetuity from trusted sources that would never put political pressure on you some time in the future, or you can convince your population to starve or die off willingly, you’re going to have a bad time

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ash_274 t1_irvrkp3 wrote

So, change the feed to one that produces less methane in the digestive process?

No, just tax it to make it more expensive. Except that while that may reduce some demand, it can also just raise the price to the point where imported beef is less expensive, so they end up raising the same quantity of cows on a global level, but the New Zealand ranchers and processors aren’t getting the business; and more energy is used and more emissions are generated to import it.

Then, as there is less and less domestic beef production, the lower and lower tax generation from it and the government has to keep raising the taxes to maintain the expected revenue and it creates a feedback loop that accelerates the offshoring of the industry.

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