Rural regions account for 43 percent of the world’s population – estimated to be just over 8 billion, at the last count – and if the calculations in this new study are correct then the number of unaccounted-for people could potentially stretch into the billions.(…)
“We were surprised to find that the actual population living in rural areas is much higher than the global population data indicates – depending on the dataset, rural populations have been underestimated by between 53 percent to 84 percent over the period studied.”(…)
ad: “Not everyone is convinced. Scientists who weren’t involved in the study told Chris Stokel-Walker at New Scientist that improvements in satellite imagery and the quality of data collecting in some countries would make these discrepancies smaller.”(…)
vertical farming is not efficient. it doesn’t scale well for most crops, and none of those are the calorie dense stuff we tend to eat lots of.
carbon capture is pointless until we stop making so fucking much of it.
you don’t but you don’t really need to. how they live is less important than where. modal shifts are probably more important than economies of scale, where they differ.
we would need to end capitalism. but that’s necessary for any way the species survives more than a few years from now.