Earth’s sixth mass extinction is already happening — and it is rapidly accelerating, researchers warned in a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.
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It’s already happening. UN projections for population growth predict a population peak just shy of 11 billion in 2100, after which there’s a slow decline. Things like vertical farming and cultured meat or meat substitutes should eventually be able to produce food more cheaply than conventional farming does. We just have to continue working on stuff we’re already working on.
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