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Artificial Foods
Artificial foods emerge in Clent's revelation as the century-old fix for world famine. Deployed under World Computer orders, they supplanted natural crops, erasing plant life across Earth. The Doctor deduces their role in stripping carbon dioxide from the air during Clent's test, with Jamie, Victoria, and Garrett listening as Clent links them directly to the glaciers' advance and the base's desperate fight for balance.
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Purpose
Sustain human population by replacing plant-based agriculture to end famine
Significance
Sparked the second ice age through atmospheric CO2 depletion from destroyed plant life, turning a technological triumph into Earth's self-made catastrophe and fueling Clent's recruitment of the Doctor to wield the ioniser against the fallout
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