Quote:
|
“We have to produce 30 percent more food on the same land area... without giant farm tractors... And without artificial fertilizer that i... stop deforestation... cut carbon emissions for food production by two-thirds... while reducing poverty levels and the loss of natural habitat, preventing freshwater depletion, and cutting pollution...
|
All worthy goals. I wish us good (F-ing) luck.
Quote:
|
Last time I was in Oregon I was a little kid.We went to the World's Fair in Seattle.
|
My whole high school senior class (all eleven!) took a trip to the Seattle World's Fair. I could have seen the Tokyo World's Fair on R&R if I'd extended my tour. I declined.
edit:
I see there was a whole 'nuther page.
Vman455 — Is the Earth not the center of the observable Universe? Are we alone?
Bucky Fuller talked about how people would go home to sleep in slums while the typewriters stayed in air-conditioned office buildings. Those huge skyscrapers dedicated to insurance companies and such could be gutted and repurposed.
Personally, I'm more in favor of flotillas of greenhouses in bays and estuaries. And geodesic fish farms floating in the open ocean.
Roboticized hydroponics.