Future of farming
Did you know we’re facing a food shortfall for the 3 billion additional people expected to grace Earth by 2050? That’s a heck of a lot of people needing a heck of a lot of food. One of the solutions to feeding all those phantom people is Vertical Farming, which is an astronomically cool concept.
They still have a lot of kinks to work out, but the city block-sized vertical farm would come with state-of-the-art technology like automated feeders and monitoring equipment. And it would be right in the middle of your city (eliminating some of the environmental problems with transporting food across the country). You can learn all about it at The Vertical Farm Project.
Of course, there are some naysayers who worry about the problems that might come with vertical farms, like overuse of pesticides and fertilizers. And then there’s this blahblahblog entry that has some interesting information but doesn’t say much (the first couple of paragraphs are totally pointless, so do yourself a favor and skip to the bullet points).
Seriously, though, if we’re going to continue at the rate we’re going, we need innovation like this. I say let’s try it out and see what happens. We either need to try some new stuff or need to stop breeding - which do you think is likelier to happen?