Split pea soup is very nutritious. My mom made it with carrots rather than potato, and meat rather than black beans, and I tried to make it the other day like she did. It was a bit bland, but it was very filling. I never did learn her recipe for it, and looking back I bet she used bullion cubes as you suggested, some garlic, and more (bay leaf?). I'll try again.

Your description of law regarding serfs really hit home. A loaf of bread for the poor is a battle, but the whims of lords are unquestionable. That's not how you phrased it, but I think that's what you meant, and it is very true today. That's also why I vehemently disagree that the real property of nations should be auctioned off, even if by quasi-lottery, for money. Future generations are going to need wilderness. As NWO as it sounds, we need wildlands to enable natural ecosystems to function properly, and if human beings own all the dirt, whom can do as they will with their property, then fences, roads, and all manner of development will impede migrations, such as that every spring and fall of toads, that hibernated over the winter where I grew up. In the spring trillions of tiny toads the size of a fingernail migrated up from the warm coastlines to ponds and springs further inland, and the roads were paved with slippery corpselets of the poor things. In the fall, a reverse migration occurred, as the toads sought the warmth of the coast to hibernate through the winter, and once again billions of them died crossing roads. A few culverts would work wonders, but you can't force that on private landowners. Better yet the whole road could be covered, like a covered bridge, so the toads wouldn't be troubled, but we'd need a lot more development funds or a lot less roads. As long as we need roads, we need them safe for toads.

Some kind of balance needs to be struck, IYAM.

However, we have entered the Space Age with the launch of Terran 1 in March of 2023, the first 3D printed spacecraft to reach orbit. Very shortly the ability for an individual household to print their own spacecraft will be within reach, and the asteroid Psyche is valued at ~$1 Quadrillion. It's just sitting there, and whoever gets it first will get to develop it, and create that inconceivable wealth. The whole solar system is just sitting there, and no one can tell us what to do with it when we get there first. A new wave of pioneers is about to eventuate, using aquaponics to make their own food, solar panels to create their own power, and all sorts of automated means of production to develop extraterrestrial real property as they see fit. We can open that valve and leave much of the Earth fallow, wild, and naturally healthy, bleeding off the development pressure and creating opportunity and freedom that renders all prior history relative penury and slavery.

We need mammoths and mastodons, ground sloths and Irish Elk, Cave Hyenas, Saber Tooths, and Glyptodonts back, and very shortly it will be trivial to bring them back. They'll need places to live, and the healthy, wild forests of E. N. America need to be restored to the billions of Passenger pigeons, the cane brakes of SE N. America returned to the Carolina Parakeet in it's billions, and so forth, across Europe, Asia, and Africa as well. To do that we need people to spread out across space, across the solar system, and even beyond it. Just like America was homesteaded by families in Conestoga wagons along the Oregon Trail, the solar system will be homesteaded - except there'll be no genocide of the natives necessary before hand, as occurred in the New World. ~98% of Native Americans died of plagues between the arrival of Columbus in 1492, and the voyages of explorers up the Mississippi a century later. Where there were initially reported villages every few miles of ~50k, there was league after league of nobody along the river. The great mounds of Cahokia were abandoned, the voices of their people silenced by measles, mumps, and rubella. The shattered survivors, bereft of their elders and their cultures, were easy pickings for the aggressive and acquisitive conquistadors and colonists.

That won't happen in space. Not for thousands of years, at least. What will happen is the export of life, abundant life, to new habitat where it has never been, inside hollowed out asteroids, O'Neil cylinders, and wherever resources are that people hanker for and light on. Over centuries places will be terraformed, and new generations will arise that have no room to grow, and they'll spread out further, taking bigger leaps with newer technology, achieving more and greater things, seizing the stars themselves as footstools for their feet. In the meantime we need wildlands on Earth, not coast to coast pavement and suburbs. We need room for natural habitat that remains undeveloped, unranched, suitable for migratory herds of bison, for kiwis, kakapu, and moa (and yes, we need moa back) and Madagascar Elephant Birds too. CRISPR and PCR are tabletop tech, and aDNA isn't far behind, while the genomes of extinct species that have been parsed are public knowledge already. Cloning and artificial wombs are ongoing research, and teams are working on bringing back Imperial Mammoths, Thylacines, and Passenger Pigeons right now. Woolly Rhinos, Great Auks, and Stellar's Sea Cow all need habitat, and we need to make room for them on Earth, even if we make room for them off Earth too. We have to remember that we aren't the end of the world. People we are holding this treasure for are coming after us. People we love as much as we love our children, because they are our children's children.

Let's bring life to the universe, abundant life. I believe that is why we're here.

Thanks!

Edit: Have a great, big, awesome Merry Christmas!