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by barbariangrunge 1266 days ago
A global response on the scale of Covid to build vertical farms would reduce the severity of the famine dramatically.

It would be expensive, but the alternative would be burning cities and food riots. I can hardly imagine the USA avoiding a civil war considering how divisive and hostile things already have gotten

You can get hydroponics going fairly quickly, the bottleneck would be the supplies and supply chain — materials to build the with

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Either {[[citation needed]]} Or {"Did you mean to post on the Things Silicon Valley Doesn't Understand About Agriculture thread?"}