"ZOONOTICS"

     Best we figure out how to live in the post "great shift" era.  Will the chaos that dominates this transitional time yield to Trump's old world "Miracle", or will we be dragged, kicking and screaming, into tomorrows "AI  World".  Eric Weinstein talks about the "twin-nuclei problem", i.e. nuclear energy at macro scale and CRISPR at micro scale.  There are unending examples of these tribulations that haunt our future.  An example, close at hand, and new to my awareness is the consequences of AI applications to Industrialized Porcine Production. 

     So......coming soon to your town....."ZOONOTICS"  Our own lives are being threatened by this hubristic optimisation process. The appearance of new human diseases such as Covid-19 – so-called “zoonotic” diseases that cross from animal to human – coincide with our modern era of optimisation, industrialised agriculture and subsequent wildlife habitat loss. One 2014 paper on zoonotic diseases states that 60% of all emerging diseases are now zoonotic with animal origins, and 80% of new pathogens come from the top pork-producing countries – places such as China. With meat consumption growing worldwide, we might just eat enough to snuff ourselves out.

     For detail try:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/08/behind-chinas-pork-miracle-how-technology-is-transforming-rural-hog-farming

Baby-back Ribs, anyone!