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J. Clarke[_2_]

In article >,
says...
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:35:26 +0000 (UTC),
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
> >I think it's important to point out that what's driving starvation
> >and disease worldwide -- at least in the immediate sense -- is
> >overconsumption in the first world, not overpopulation per se.
> >
> >To the extent that additional persons (e.g. children) become
> >overconsumers, they become part of the problem; but if a given household
> >is consuming below-average amounts of energy and consumer products
> >generally, then they are not a disproportionate part of the problem.
> >So it is not particularly fair to heap criticism on a resource-conserving
> >household with a high head-count.
> >
> >Steve
>
> The math is easy.
>
> Two adults have 4 children.
>
> If those four children consume everything in the same manner that
> their parents do, then there is a 200% increase in the amount of
> resources used as a result of those children growing to adults.
>
> If those parents have 8 children, then it's a 400% increase over what
> the parents consumed.
>
> If this isn't a population driven problem, then what else could you
> call it?
>
> The world cannot feed a 400% increase in demand for resources. It
> can't even support a 200% increase.
>
> What will happen as a result?
>
> More people will die each year of starvation.
>
> Fact.
>
> We could delay or lessen that effect by using a world government (not
> going to happen), or a fair and impartial distribution of food
> world-wide (isn't going to happen) or by teaching the world to grow
> more produce per/sq ft of area (this can happen).
>
> In the future, you will see Hydroponic towers that will look much like
> the current "sky-scrapers" like office buildings or apartment
> buildings now.
>
> Each one could produce 250 thousand pounds of produce per/month,
> per/floor. (200' x 200' floor space).
>
> I already know how to do this. (No kidding)
>
> So, why isn't it being done? I'm surely not the only person with the
> knowledge of how this is done.
>
> For the doubters, that's 10 pounds per/sq ft of available area minus
> 33% for support functions (works out to 6.7 pounds per/sq ft.of total
> area)
>
> I can grow 6.7 pounds of produce per/sq ft/month, on any scale.
>
> Growing vertically is the only method that will work inside a city.
> Land is too precious.
>
> MY method would work to feed those who need it. Will it ever be done?
> I doubt it.

Your brilliant idea isn't being done because there is no purpose served
by it. The people in the world who are starving due to lack of nearby
food sources are not living adjacent to skyscrapers. The people who
live adjacent to skyscrapers and are starving are starving because
either there isn't a social services program to feed them or they've
slipped through the cracks of it. Growing hideously expensive food in
hydroponic skyscrapers won't feed them.