Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food

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Cut down the last redwood for chopsticks, harpoon the last blue whale for sushi, and the additional mouths fed will nourish additional human brains, which will soon invent ways to replace blubber with alestra and pine with plastic, humanity can survice just fine in a planet covering crypt of concrete and computers. There is not the slightest scientific reason to suppose that such a world must collapse under its own weight, or that it will be any less stable than the one which we know inhabit.

-Peter Huber, “environmental economist” and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, as well as a regular columnist for Forbes magazine.  

These people exist, and that is a terrifying reality.