According to climate models, much arable farmland will be destroyed by climate change. There will be increasing pressure for protein and calories from all sources. Perhaps whales could be domesticated. If not, rapid changes in ocean energy absorption and chemistry threaten the entire food chain.
Another long-term consideration is industrial protein manufacturing to skip the risks and mess of CAFOs in Brazil and Texas, and fish feeding operations like the horrible fish farms throughout the world from Thailand to Norway. It maybe possible to greatly reduce the risk of a global pandemic if animals and people aren't kept in excesssively close proximity.
Megafauna doesn't have much hope in the Holocene extinction event. One only need to look at the odd survival of avocados which were likely to have died out as humans likely killed their primary seed distribution omni or herbivores. There is little causal data, but it's a contributing factor.
Holocene extinction will likely continue until the entire planet collapses, humans die out or kill everything that isn't or cannot be domesticated. There is simply too much energy already absorbed forcing climate change to be reversed even by redirecting all GDP into geoengineering... Greenland and Antarctica will melt over a thousand years, sea levels will rise 100 m (~300 ft).
According to climate models, much arable farmland will be destroyed by climate change. There will be increasing pressure for protein and calories from all sources. Perhaps whales could be domesticated. If not, rapid changes in ocean energy absorption and chemistry threaten the entire food chain.
Another long-term consideration is industrial protein manufacturing to skip the risks and mess of CAFOs in Brazil and Texas, and fish feeding operations like the horrible fish farms throughout the world from Thailand to Norway. It maybe possible to greatly reduce the risk of a global pandemic if animals and people aren't kept in excesssively close proximity.
Megafauna doesn't have much hope in the Holocene extinction event. One only need to look at the odd survival of avocados which were likely to have died out as humans likely killed their primary seed distribution omni or herbivores. There is little causal data, but it's a contributing factor.
Holocene extinction will likely continue until the entire planet collapses, humans die out or kill everything that isn't or cannot be domesticated. There is simply too much energy already absorbed forcing climate change to be reversed even by redirecting all GDP into geoengineering... Greenland and Antarctica will melt over a thousand years, sea levels will rise 100 m (~300 ft).