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Treat 'abundance' not only as a macro industrial policy but as a targeted small‑business strategy: reduce permitting and compliance overhead, accelerate infrastructure in struggling towns, and pair that with demand‑side measures (transmission, zoning for industry) so new customers arrive. The synthesis reframes abundance as both supply‑side (lower regulatory fixed costs) and demand‑side (infrastructure‑enabled population/employment growth) policy for local revitalization.
— If framed this way, 'abundance' becomes politically relevant to mayors and councilors seeking tangible small‑business wins rather than an abstract tech‑industrial slogan.
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Scientists and startups are developing systems that use solar energy and engineered microbes or electrochemical processes to produce edible biomass without growing conventional crops or raising animals. This approach replaces photosynthetic plants as the intermediary step and aims to produce protein, fats, and calories using much less land and water.
— If viable at scale, sunlight‑to‑food tech would reshape agriculture, land use, supply chains, rural labor, and climate policy by decoupling calories from farmland.
Sources: Everything you eat is sunlight. Scientists want to cut out the middleman.