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You are wrong because without vertical farming humanity will not be able to scale to hundreds of billions of souls as easily. And vertical farming will be neces
by ThorsBane 3y ago
You are wrong because without vertical farming humanity will not be able to scale to hundreds of billions of souls as easily. And vertical farming will be necessary on Moon and Mars and Venus and Europa and Pluto and beyond. And we have unlimited space and raw materials with which to assemble vertical farms in space.
- bioemerl 3y agoWe have many bigger issues than farm space that we need to solve before vertical farming makes sense, if this is your reasoning. Human population is already declining with no external factors like famine pushing us to do so. We aren't going to have significant populations on any planet that isn't earth for decades. I don't disagree with you that vertical farms may become useful some day in the long future, although maybe I'd argue we will move to fully artificial factory food before that happens.
- ThorsBane 3y agoPeople who are healthy enough to live another 30 years will see people being born on Moon and Mars and food being grown in vertical farms on both Moon and Mars and in space. And then another 30 and we'll hit 100 billion. Then another 30 years and 100 trillion probably. This'll happen even if nobody explicitly tries to make it happen, just because the economics will work out.