[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
Awhile ago before bed I started thinking how it would be advantageous to have a large greenhouse farm outside of every major city to supply fresh produce year-round. Have composting set-up, solar/wind energy supply systems. I think it would be cool, although I’m not sure how feasible it is.[/quote]
I’m not sure how big your city is, but it would be difficult to have a “large” greenhouse for an entire city.[/quote]
That’s why we need to develop multistory hydroponic farm facilities. Our soil has deteriorated a bunch anyway and our water resources are dissappearing fast. Summed up, it could save water, soil, and land. Sunlight could be replicated with sunlamps and if this country ever makes the move to utilize more alternative resources, the energy for that won’t be so damned dirty.
The biggest problems is trying to implement that when fossil fuels are bringing in so much money to powerful entities and the damage it could cause to farmers using soil. Initial setup costs can be relatively high too so at least at the moment it seems to be limited to government sponsorship and corporations and other people who have large chunks of change.
A website to show that hydroponic farming is not an untested technology (granted, there is a lot of work to be done to make it a more viable option but my opinion is that it can be done).
ZEB - I agree there is not a shortage of food, but there are problems with the global and local distribution of food. There is an increasing number of people in the US who do not have access to enough food (based on reports from food banks).[/quote]
Oh man, thanks for the laugh. In the US about 68% of all people are overweight and almost half of them are morbidly obese! There is absolutely no shortage of food and there will not be. This is just more of the same from the bunker set.
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I do not quite understand the humor. I agree there is not a shortage of food in total, but there are access problems. Obesity is partly due to diet and when communities do not have access to fruit and vegetables but have access to sugary and starchy foods, you can have obesity while at the same time as access issues (lack of access) to healthier foods.
So perhaps I should say there is not a caloric shortage but for some limited access to nutritious foods.[/quote]
And it doesn’t matter because they don’t want that food anyway. People’s eating habits in the US are atrocious. We have become a nation of fast food and soda junkies. Poor nutritional habits are not about availability. It’s about knowledge and then the discipline to carry forth on that knowledge.
There is no point to this thread it needs to die.
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