By petra
>> Good luck convincing people
In a world with a real pressing population problem, coupled with good alternatives(meatless meat that’s good as the real thing, healthier ,cheaper, marketed well) it seems doable.
>> local food production.
In the grand scale of things, i’m not sure that’s a huge problem. food miles are just 10% of food emissions, and we have some other ways to get rid of that(clean transport, greenhouses spread around cities) that seem more practical.
But if you’re interested, there’s some interesting research on large-scale vertical agriculture[pdf]:
www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/4526/3952
But to build it would be expensive – 200 million euro, and as far as i can remember , it wasn’t price competitive.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480952
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