"It's worse than we thought." Sound familiar?

[AverageJoe90]

105. There's a big problem with powering down, though: It's still a "silver bullet" type situation.

Trade in hemp won't make the global situation better
and the land you describe as "places where normal food crops would have a hard time" is called "agricultural land".

No, because normal food crops grow well in agricultural land.

1. We will continue to grow, and we can support Business as Usual (BAU) into the foreseeable future either because resources are infinite, or by leveraging technology. This group consists of consumers, capitalists, neo-liberal economists, resource extractors, and other believers in the status quo.

2. We must stop growing, but we can keep what we’ve got now by making some Green changes in how we live, again using technology. Steady Staters, Zero growth proponents, sustainable development proponents, environmentalists, and climate change advocates live here in the idea of reform. The Resilience Alliance, with its emphasis on “retaining the same controls and function” in reaction to systemic change, is probably also in this category? But if we try to keep what we’ve got, is there room for the basic structural and cultural changes that need to be made to adapt?

3. Our economies will contract to match declines in resources, and we must adapt proactively if that decline is to be orderly. Descent, Degrowth, Transition, and PWD groups have this world view of transformation. Most in this category also believe that orderly descent will require relative socioeconomic equality. Perspectives on economic collapse vary, with “doomers” as the most extreme.

The sad thing is, is that 2 and 3 really won't work, either(especially not 3, it's just as fantastical as 1, if not perhaps even more so.). Here's a number 4 solution:

4. We cannot continue to support Business as Usual where dirty fuel usage as concerned. We must transition to cleaner energy as quickly as possible, and certainly, reducing population growth would help. And the sooner these, and certain other things are done, the better off humanity will be in the long run. Collapse of any kind is not inevitable, and a better world is possible, but only if we act; If we allow ourselves to believe that the worst is inevitable, then surely, we will fail. But if we make a stand, then change is possible.