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[EuchreJack]

What's the easiest way to have a sense of real advancement?

There's probably something better then questioning.

Following up on previous good suggestions, have you considered posting here yet?

[McTraveller]

Can someone please explain to me how it's not an issue of cognitive dissonance to have reports of both "we throw away half our food!" and "climate change is putting our farms on the brink of not being able to produce enough food!"

It's been my understanding that the issue has for a while now been with food distribution, not food production.  Is this not really true?

[Frumple]

It'd fit just fine if the expected agricultural impact is greater than half current production, or the other disruptions involved (drought, desertification/environmental shifts impacting infrastructure, conflict/infrastructure stress due to mass migration, etc.) are expected to have even greater effects on (already the major problem) distribution than the significant ones they're already having on (regional) production.

... or if you think the distribution problems are effectively unsolvable and the climate change hit is going to mean half of it still gets thrown away and production losses means shelves and pantries go empty instead of the tossed half getting used.

The current issue is distribution more than production. The future (20-50 years, century from now, whatever) issue may change that balance, especially as agriculture demand continues to grow.

They're not particularly irreconcilable positions, basically, unless you're assuming they're superimposed on top of each other right now, or that "on the brink" means "will collapse next week" or somethin'.

[EuchreJack]

Needs vs. Wants regarding food waste.  But good point that we have some resiliency in global food production in that our food usage is suboptimal.

Also, if climate change hurts local farms, then it becomes a distribution issue.

Finally, Most Ad-based News/Media is Congnitive Dissonance.  They want to confuse you so the ads work.

[Scoops Novel]

What animal spends its life basically moving from box to box?

[Yellow Pixel]

Depends what you mean by "box" but... a hermit crab maybe?

[Egan_BW]

Maru the cat!

[heydude6]

What animal spends its life basically moving from box to box?

Don’t want to be offensive, but is it a hobo?

[hector13]

What animal spends its life basically moving from box to box?

Don’t want to be offensive, but is it a hobo?

“I don’t to be offensive.” *proceeds to be offensive* :p

You’re alright though, I don’t think B12 is frequented by the homeless population.

Though to answer the initial question, the average human being will probably describe themselves by any number of different things in metaphorical box ticking exercises that will be easily understandable by other human beings.

Just to be wide.

[Frumple]

I'unno about frequented, but there actually has been a fair amount of folks around here that have spent time homeless at some point or another. So we might not have many active homeless, but we got a good handful of ex-ones. Dunno if any of 'em would take much offense, though.

[King Zultan]

What about gold fish, most aquariums are square?

[EuchreJack]

What animal spends its life basically moving from box to box?

Don’t want to be offensive, but is it a hobo?

I take offense to that.
I've spend quite a bit of time moving my stuff from box to box, and I've always had what I call a domicile to my name.

Another answer would be (house) cats.

[Rolan7]

Mood.

[EuchreJack]

As you can probably guess, I'm currently in the process of moving...

[scriver]

Moved.