Their statistics tell them all these things will happen, and the end of the world is not. Some of them use it as a graft. The user is a way to get more money out of people. I mean, because people will use all sorts of tactics to try and get more money out of people, you know they don't necessarily need to be truthful. Maybe they believe in themselves. We need to do something to make some cash, so we'll use this as an excuse to raise funds. Whenever they do, these doom and gloom studies is what they do is they take it's it's a standard futures trick it's not a few streets technique you take something that's happening today, and you extrapolated, so you say you know this is the number this is the amount of grain. Being born in the year so if the man agrees if the metaphor that we create a year stays more or less straight like the the the the inclined curve is lower than the number of people who are born every year then all my god at some point the world will start there will start that's it you know that that it see how simple this is it's obvious isn't it we're never going to make enough food for enough people. But what is that person forgetting? What are they forgetting when they look at those numbers they are ignoring human ingenuity human inventiveness see this is the thing that I think a lot of these doom and gloom folks don't understand is that we are problem-solving creatures that are what human beings are, and we when we are given a. And this is why these doom and gloom folks the big can't see beyond the extrapolations they have today. They have to understand that at some point in the future. I think they said something like the world could not possibly handle 4000000000 people 5000000000 people 6000000000 people some billing people 8000000000 people as we grow and grow and grow and grow we can still handle those people because of technology advances have been able to feed those people so the more people we, the more people we create some more food we can create for those people. I mean, look at the problem with global warming. Let's say you're one of those folks who believe in global warming. You believe that the biggest problem is meat consumption that it's all these cows farting everywhere they're creating all this methane in the atmosphere, which is the biggest problem. We need to reduce meat consumption, so if we don't reduce meat consumption, it is the end of the world in 12 years or something like that. What happens? We create our meat; we start eating less meat, create plant-based alternatives to the meat or genetically cloned meat. We figured out how to make a burger; I mean, it's a $300000 burger. Still, it's a real burger cloned from meat. It's not growing. Extend the planet's life if you believe that that's what's causing the biggest problems, so you see, we have our best minds working on this. The human race is working on all of these intractable issues, and so far, we've been able to figure some of them out. Now there's some we haven't figured out yet, but we're progressing, and that's why when you hear about doom and gloom and all these horrible things happening, you have to factor in human inventiveness. If you factor in human inventiveness, you can see yourself wait a minute. Maybe some of these things will not occur because we'll be able to figure out how to get around human beings. Intelligent human beings will be able to figure it out. That is what we are we're problem-solving animals in.
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