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Calories are generally cheap. Protein is dear. When the ocean ecosystem collapses under the strain of acidification by dissolved CO2, efforts to control access to protein will trigger wars.

Meat is non-essential, nutritionally, given beans and B-12, but materially reducing access to it is politically destabilizing.



Ah yes, supplement.

PRC is a totalitarian state that has starved its own population in the name of progress in living memory.

I suspect they would be fine with doing this again.


The state might be, the question is whether the public would be fine with it, and what the cost of containing dissent might be in the information age.


What online media giveth, pervasive surveillance taketh away.




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