"We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for more space," Han Admiraal, a civil engineer with over two decades of experience in underground space, told AFP on the sidelines of this year's World Tunnel Congress.
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"Underground spaces could easily be used for growing crops," he said, as he toured the cavernous Bourbon Tunnel, dug deep under the Italian city of Naples as a potential escape route for King Ferdinand II of Bourbon after the 1848 riots.Scientific developments in areas like aquaponics—where vegetables and fish are farmed together—could help relieve the pressure on the food supply chain, and dramatically cut transport costs if such new farms were situated under cities.
Isn't excavation expensive?
(Score: 3, Funny) by JNCF on Friday May 10 2019, @02:29AM
Dwindling number of species, yes. Nasty food/water/air, probably not. If we're still living in meat-bodies we'll just filter it all and live inside. That's kind of dystopian from our current point of view, but I think it's where we're headed, and when the future people look back at videos of The Old Nature they'll consider it ugly by comparison to their new surrounding which have been generated by genetic algorithms using human standards of beauty measured from EEG headsets as their fitness functions. Yes, I know I could well be wrong in this prediction.