Homo sapiens

Thomas and others are still self-aware.

Although the current sudden change in climate may cause serious reductions in agricultural production, in fact, it will have no substantial impact on them, the Draco people.

After all, no matter how difficult it is, Thomas and others can still have food and clothing without worries.

If the Homo sapiens company did not exist, even if the climate suddenly changed and the earth entered an ice age, the Tianlong people would not care about the life and death of ordinary consumables.

Now they are trying to stabilize prices and restore agricultural production capacity. This is not because of their conscience.

But in order to ensure their own strength, they need these consumables to work for them.

Without these consumables, everything for them will fall apart. Let alone compete with the Homo sapiens company, even self-protection will be very difficult.

After all, how many people are there in the Tianlong group?

Perhaps many people think that artificial intelligence, automation technology, and robotics are now very powerful, and that artificial intelligence and robots can be used to replace ordinary consumables, so that there is no need to worry about food supply.

Indeed, this idea is very good.

But many people ignore one issue.

That is, computers and robots also need humans to manufacture, design, and maintain them.

You said that automated production lines can be used directly to produce computers and robots? This reduces consumable usage.

But what about design and maintenance? What about technology research and development?

We can’t let artificial intelligence design, maintain and conduct technology research and development on its own, right?

If artificial intelligence can do this.

Congratulations to human civilization. Your historical mission has been completed. You can prepare to receive lunch boxes. Now is the era of omnic civilization.

Obviously at this stage, artificial intelligence has no way to design, maintain, and conduct technology research and development on its own.

The number of Tianlong people is too small, and most of these guys are not science and engineering majors.

Let them play conspiracies, financial games, eat, drink and have fun. Maybe they are experts and engage in industrial production and technology research and development, which is really embarrassing for them.

With the development of modern industry, many industries require 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, post-maintenance, etc. The entire industry chain requires at least millions of practitioners.

The total number of Tianlong people is only a few hundred thousand, and including the losers, there are only a few million at most.

This amount of people can't even fill a computer industry, let alone dozens of other large industries and thousands of subdivided industries.

To maintain a modern industrial chain, at least 300 million highly qualified people with science and engineering degrees are needed.

See clearly, there are 300 million highly qualified people with science and engineering majors, not 300 million migrant workers or 300 million people with liberal arts majors.

Now the free world is patchwork together, and the four major forces combined can barely maintain the operation of the entire industrial chain.

But if the population continues to decrease, the consequence will be the gradual collapse of the industrial chain.

Once the industrial chain collapses, they will have no power to fight against Homo sapiens companies.

This is why Thomas and others are willing to cut their meat to ordinary consumables. For Thomas and others, there is actually no difference between tens of trillions of dollars and several trillions of dollars.

Money exceeding the limit of 100 million is actually just a number.

If everyone in the Morgan family simply eats, drinks and has fun all day long, they won't be able to spend hundreds of millions a year.

And the entire America actually belongs to the Council of the City on the Hill.

If the money is gone, you can still make it again.

If America collapses, then the Morgan family, the Rockefeller family, the Mellon family and others will definitely not be able to live happily.

That's why these vampires are willing to bleed.

In a secret video conference.

After some wrangling, they finally reached an agreement.

In preparation for joining forces to develop nuclear power plants, we first determined the fourth-generation nuclear fission reactor technology based on thorium-based molten salt as the current technical standard for new nuclear power plants.

The other is to strengthen technological research and development cooperation in nuclear fusion power generation.

besides.

Thomas also proposed to establish a strategic reserve system of bulk agricultural products in the free world to ensure that the four major forces can respond to large-scale natural disasters that may occur in the future.

If possible, we should also find ways to support the fringe worlds in West Asia, South America and Africa.

"Support the fringe world?" Caesar thought for a moment and wondered if he still had any objections.

Thomas seriously reminded: "Everyone, we cannot give up on those forces in the fringe world. If their manpower, market, and resources are obtained by Homo sapiens companies, we will be even more passive."

Mastvon looked embarrassed: "But we don't have much strategic food reserves. The population of the fringe world is about 2.5 billion, and we need a lot of food!"

Louis Comte did not refuse immediately, but asked: "What is the approximate food gap in the marginal world?"

With ABCD's internal intelligence support, Thomas is quite clear about the current international food supply and demand situation:

"The gap in Latin America is not big. The Aztecs need about 20 million tons of grain. ABCD's grain in North America can be sold to them at a low price."

"The food gap in Africa is currently filled by cheap food from Homo sapiens companies. We can only obtain part of the market in the Abdwaad region and the Transvaal region."

Thomas paused, took a sip of water, and then 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 grain to ensure that this area 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. In the past, the four major forces would have been able to produce this amount of grain.

Now they have to be cautious, fearing that if the inventory is not enough for internal use, the problem will be serious.

After all, the local area is their basic base, and the importance of the peripheral world must be less than that of their local area.

After weighing the pros and cons, they reluctantly scraped together 30 million tons of grain to stabilize the entire West Asia.

When it comes to West Asia, Thomas raised another more difficult issue: "Everyone, I think the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea canal project should be suspended."

"Pause?" Mastervon thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, I agree."

None of the parties had much opinion on the proposal.

Because there is no other way to stop now.

The sea level is falling. Now 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, this canal will be directly abandoned.

In fact, not only this canal, but also the two canals in Central America, the Ottoman Strait, and the Strait of Gibraltar are at risk of turning into land.

The thought of canals in Central America being disrupted.

Everyone started discussing in whispers.

Without a way to reverse global cooling, the paralysis of these maritime transportation hubs is very likely to become a reality.

In order to deal 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 double squeeze of Homo sapiens companies and climate change, the major forces finally dared not compete anymore, but instead tried to find ways to solve these crises.

However, just as they were discussing how to solve the problem.

Another crisis is approaching quietly.

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