realistic ecology wrote:More ... GMOs ARE an alternative path! Classical agriculture is less and less able to meet current needs, organic agriculture even less. Many needs are artificial, fashion (which requires cotton), SUV, meat in quantity, etc. But this is artificial only in the developed consumer countries. But the needs of five billion, soon seven, in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, are not artificial. We can not afford not to meet those needs.
Other alternative paths? the most popular route now is to raze the forest.
This reasoning is hardly convincing, particularly because of the Jevons paradox, more commonly called "rebound effect".
This stipulates as technological improvements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, the total consumption of that resource may increase rather than decrease.https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxe_de_Jevons
And the examples are not lacking in this area! The contemporary era is only a large-scale implementation of this paradox!
It is important to understand this:the use of a technique to adapt to a situation induced by a given process will almost always be the best option. It is an immanent reasoning that appears correct...ostensibly.
The logical mistake here is that this solution is actually totally captive to the global problem it is supposed to solve.
Ex the population increases we must resort to exceptional means of overtaking to feed the population. By resorting to his means, the problem is amplified until it reaches a stabilization leading to the standardization of the implementation of its new techniques. This is typically a type effect. red queen.
Once the stabilization threshold is reached, it is no longer possible to go back ...