Hank: in 100 years people will kill few animals for food and look back on it with horror (2024)
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In his August 2024 letter to the future, Hank predicted that in 100 years people would kill few animals for food and look back on it with horror.
About: animal ethics, chicken
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-02 | predicted | Hank predicts we will not kill many animals for food and will look back on it with horror; chicken products especially will be replaced by nutritionally and ethically superior ones. | My Letter to the Future 00:00:59 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank bets people will oddly still eat a bit of beef, because culture is harder to change than technology. — 00:01:28
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank predicts today's agricultural land use will be seen as outrageous, much of the American interior will be wild, and America will have more than 10 million bison. — 00:01:28
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank: Saying a good prediction takes real risks, Hank bets a non-zero number of some animal (word unclear) will range over that wild area. — 00:01:28
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank tells the future it will look back and call us so racist, while still being somewhat racist in its own different ways. (playful) — 00:01:57
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank thinks the future will figure out climate change, and makes a risky bet that geothermal power will be a big part of it, which people will then call obvious. — 00:01:57
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank says everyone now expects fusion to be the answer; he bets fusion will exist but be a niche technology. — 00:02:27
- 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank predicts people will find our worry about overpopulation crazy, as they struggle long to move to an economy not fueled by constant population growth. — 00:02:27