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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-27-07 02:05 PM
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16. I agree.
It's not just the problem of recreating a diverse farm ecology that worries me, though. It's the scale of the endeavour and the fact that so much of the work will have to be done by human beings rather than machines. In places like Africa this will not be so much of a problem, as society is still largely organized around human-powered agriculture. We in the OECD would need to retrain an awful lot of stockbrokers, economists, automobile repairmen and soccer moms if we want to produce enough food under those circumstances.

The "transition state" (as you so delicately put it) will probably reduce the requirement for food quite substantially, though.
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