This article reminds me of the fever over insect apocalypse. Techy types love to imagine swarms of tiny drones taking up the job of pollinating our plants when

This article reminds me of the fever over insect apocalypse. Techy types love to imagine swarms of tiny drones taking up the job of pollinating our plants when the bees die off. I can only imagine that anyone thinking like this has never kept bees or simply watched them in amazement as they do their job, entirely undirected and uncoordinated by us. The ultimate low tech solution, working reliably and consistently for millenia. Lab-grown meat feels the same to me. Yes, it seems clear we shouldn't continue consuming pasture and methane intensive foods like beef. But does that mean we try and replicate that product by hurling science at it - trying to do ourselves what nature already has worked out? At huge cost in $$ and in distraction while we take our eye off of the more important things? I'd say as humans we would be better off getting a little pragmatic about this and a bit less arrogant about our ability to re-shape nature. Instead of looking for artificial beef, how about just substituting chicken every second time we eat? That would move the needle enormously on environmental impact. And requires no new technology at all. Same goes for elaborate carbon capture technologies. Why even bother when our planetary economy continues to incentivise people burning fossil fuels in unimaginable quantities?