SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
"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.
...
"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: 2, Insightful) by qzm on Friday May 10 2019, @04:25AM (4 children)
That would be because you are a moron sucking the teat of socialists populism.
Perhaps have a look at how high density housing works out.
Have a look at the psychological research on it.
It is a complete disaster.
The fact is there is huge free space.. most of the crowding is caused by artificial scarcity of where we are allowed to build.
City dwellers on the whole are the cause of pollution and environmental problems.. Not the solution.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @05:07AM
Most of the crowding is caused because populations keep growing, and people like to go where the action is, not out to the boonies.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 10 2019, @05:25AM (2 children)
Here, get yourself a cheap education:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth#Population_projections_of_the_101_largest_cities_in_the_21st_century [wikipedia.org]
People are already congregating into metropolitan areas en masse and will continue to do so. City planning will influence the quality of the outcome.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Friday May 10 2019, @08:41AM (1 child)
I dunno elsewhere but here many people would gladly return to a piece of land as they are tired of getting their brain and respiratory system fogged with the city air. But it's unfeasible economically because you need to turn product into money to pay taxes.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 10 2019, @11:17AM
J053 is not wrong. There are vast, vast swathes of the Earth that are empty. They could carry many more people, and probably will before most of us have passed from this life, actually.
The trouble is supplying the material needs of those unborn billions. Capitalism, as currently constituted, can't do it. The "pillage the earth, exploit huge masses of poor to do the work, give it all to a lazy entitled handful" is unsustainable. A model that watched the triple bottom line of profit-social-environmental might have a chance.
Washington DC delenda est.