Chapter 521 Cutting Meat and Persevering
Thomas and others are still self-aware.
Even though the current climate change may cause serious agricultural production reduction, it actually has no substantial impact on them, the Tianlong people.
After all, no matter how difficult the situation is, Thomas and others can still have enough food and clothing.
If the Homo Sapiens Company did not exist, even if there was a sudden climate change and the Earth entered an ice age, the Celestial Dragons would not care about the life and death of ordinary consumables.
Now they are trying every means to stabilize prices and restore agricultural production capacity, not because they have a change of heart.
But in order to ensure their own strength, they need these consumables to work for them.
Without these supplies, everything they have would fall apart. Not to mention competing with the Homo Sapiens company, even protecting themselves would be extremely difficult.
After all, there are only a few people in the Celestial Dragon group.
Perhaps many people think that artificial intelligence, automation technology, and robotics technology are very advanced now, and artificial intelligence and robots can be used to replace ordinary consumables, so there is no need to worry about food supply problems.
Indeed, this idea is very good.
But many people overlook one issue .
That is, computers and robots also need humans to manufacture, design, and maintain.
You said that we can directly use automated production lines to produce computers and robots? This way, we can reduce the use of consumables.
But what about design and maintenance? What about technology development?
We can’t let artificial intelligence design, maintain and conduct technological research and development on its own, right?
If artificial intelligence can achieve this level.
Then congratulations to human civilization, your historical mission has been completed and you can prepare to die. Now is the era of intelligent machine civilization.
Obviously, at this stage, artificial intelligence cannot design, maintain, or conduct technological research and development on its own.
However, the number of Celestial Dragons is too small, and most of these guys are not from science and engineering backgrounds.
If you let them play conspiracies and intrigues, play financial games, and indulge in eating, drinking and having fun, they may be experts at it, but if they engage in industrial production and technological research and development, it will be really difficult for them.
With the development of modern industry today, many industries need too many industrial technicians.
Take the computer industry as an example.
Chip manufacturing equipment, chip manufacturing raw materials, chip design and manufacturing, computer supporting components, assembly, software design, and post-maintenance, the entire industry chain requires at least several million practitioners.
The total number of Celestial Dragons is only a few hundred thousand, and with their lackeys, there are only a few million at most.
This number of people cannot even fill the computer industry, let alone dozens of other large industries and thousands of sub-industries.
To maintain an entire modern industrial chain, at least 300 million highly qualified science and engineering population are needed.
Look carefully, these are 300 million highly qualified people with science and engineering backgrounds, not 300 million migrant workers or 300 million people with liberal arts backgrounds.
Now the free world is patchwork, and the four major forces combined can barely maintain the operation of the entire industrial chain.
But if the population continues to decline, the consequence will be the gradual collapse of the industrial chain.
Once the industrial chain collapses, they will have no power to fight against the Homo Sapiens company.
This is why Thomas and others are willing to sacrifice their lives for ordinary consumables. For Thomas and others, there is actually no difference between tens of trillions of US dollars and hundreds of trillions of US dollars.
The limit of money exceeding 100 million is actually just a number.
If each member of the Morgan family simply spent all day eating, drinking and having fun, they would not spend hundreds of millions a year.
In fact, the entire America belongs to the City on the Hill Council.
If you lose money, you can earn it again.
If America collapsed, the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, the Mellon family and the like would definitely not be able to live freely.
That's why these vampires are willing to bleed profusely.
In secret video conference.
After some haggling, they finally reached an agreement.
In preparation for jointly building a nuclear power plant, the fourth-generation nuclear fission reactor technology using thorium-based molten salt was first determined as the technical standard for the current construction of new nuclear power plants.
Another thing is to strengthen cooperation in the technical research and development of nuclear fusion power generation.
besides.
Thomas also proposed to establish a strategic reserve system for bulk agricultural products in the free world to ensure that the four major powers can cope with large-scale natural disasters that may occur in the future.
If possible, we should also find ways to support the marginal world in West Asia, South America and Africa.
"Support the edge world?" Caesar thought about it and saw if there was any objection.
Thomas reminded them seriously: "Everyone, we cannot give up those forces in the marginal world. If their manpower, market, and resources are obtained by the Sapiens Company, we will be in a more passive position."
Master von looked embarrassed: "But we don't have much strategic food reserves. The population of the marginal world is about 2.5 billion, and the food needed is not small!"
Louis Comte did not refuse immediately, but asked: "What is the food gap in the marginal world?"
With the internal intelligence support of ABCD, Thomas is quite clear about the current international food supply and demand situation:
"The gap in Latin America is not big. The Aztecs probably need 20 million tons of food. ABCD can sell them a batch of food in North America at a low price."
"The food gap in Africa is currently being filled by the cheap food from the Sapiens Company. We can only gain a part of the market in the Abde Wad region and the Transvaal region."
Thomas paused, took a sip of water, and continued, "The key now is the West Asia region. We must find a way to squeeze out a batch of about 30 million tons of food to ensure that this place will not be bought by the Homo Sapiens company."
"30 million tons?"
Everyone started arguing again.
After all, 30 million tons of grain is not a small amount. If it were in the past, the four major forces would have been able to come up with this amount of grain.
Now they have to be cautious, fearing that if the inventory is not enough for internal use, it will become a serious problem.
After all, their homeland is their base, and the importance must be less than that of their homeland.
After weighing the pros and cons, they barely managed to scrape together 30 million tons of food, determined to stabilize the entire West Asia.
When it comes to the West Asia region, Thomas brought up another more difficult issue: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I think the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal project should be suspended."
"Pause?" Master Feng thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, I agree."
There was not much objection from all parties to this proposal.
Because there is no way to stop now.
The sea level is dropping. If we continue to dig the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal, even if it can be completed in the next few years, once the sea level drops by more than 10 meters, the canal will be directly abandoned.
In fact, it is not just this canal, but also the two canals in Central America, the Ottoman Strait, and the Strait of Gibraltar are at risk of becoming land.
The thought of the canal being disrupted in Central America.
Everyone started discussing in whispers.
In the absence of a way to reverse global cooling, the paralysis of these maritime transportation hubs is likely to become a reality.
In order to cope with this crisis, they can only find ways to add some land railway transportation lines and oil and gas pipeline projects in West Asia.
In addition, Lucia's oil and gas pipelines are also planned to be expanded.
Under the dual pressure of Homo Sapiens and climate change, the major powers finally dared not compete with each other anymore, but tried to find ways to resolve these crises.
However, just as they were discussing how to solve the problem.
Another crisis is also approaching quietly.
