The big risks were listed as climate change, water scarcity,
vast urban waste, food insecurity, public heath burdens, economic inequality, and demographic cliffs.
the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless
urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to
vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays
waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.